Anna Hetherington

Anna Hetherington completed her B.A. in psychology and art history at the University of California, Berkeley, and received her M.A. and M.Phil. degrees from Columbia University, where she is currently a Ph.D. candidate in art history. Hetherington's focus is the Italian Renaissance, but she has taught in a variety of fields ranging from 20th century American art to German art in the age of the Reformation. She has taught psychology in the Pre-College Academy at the University of California, Berkeley and worked as a consultant for a contemporary art gallery. She is presently focused on understanding artistic melancholy and its representation by artists such as Bosch, Bruegel, Michelangelo and Titian.

Aki Ishida

Aki Ishida received her Master of Science in advanced architectural design from Columbia University and Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Minnesota. She is a registered architect, a LEED-accredited professional, and the principal of Aki Ishida Architect PLLC, a research-based design practice founded in New York. Prior to starting her company, she was a designer and project manager with James Carpenter Design Associates, I. M. Pei Architect, and Rafael Vinoly Architects. She is currently an assistant professor of architecture at Virginia Tech and has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, Parsons the New School for Design, Pratt Institute, and Konkuk University in Seoul, Korea. She has run multiple collaborative projects with partners including the Japan Society, Starwood Hotels, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.