George Makari
Historian, psychoanalyst, and psychiatrist George Makari is the Director of
the DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy, and the Arts, and Professor of Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College, where for over two decades he has led efforts to integrate humanistic scholarship into mind/brain medicine and science. His latest book, Of Fear and Strangers:  A History of Xenophobia (W.W Norton, 2021) was the recipient of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize, the Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Prize, and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice and a Bloomberg Book of the Year. It was preceded by two widely acclaimed and award-winning histories, Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind (W.W Norton, 2015) and Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis (HarperCollins, 2008). His books have been or are being translated into eleven languages and their findings have been the subject of eight symposia. His essays have appeared in many venues including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Raritan, the New York Times, and the New England Journal of Medicine, as well as in psychiatric journals. The recipient of numerous honors, Dr. Makari was presented with the Benjamin Rush Award from the American Psychiatric Association. A graduate of Brown University, Cornell University Medical College, and the Columbia University’s Psychoanalytic Center, he is presently a Guest Investigator at Rockefeller University and a faculty member of Columbia’s Psychoanalytic institute. He lives with his family in New York City.

Francisco J. González is a psychoanalyst who helped found and co-directs the Community Psychoanalysis Track at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) in San Francisco which is spearheading a movement to bring community work to psychoanalytic training. He also conducts, teaches, and supervises traditional dyadic psychoanalysis at PINC, and  is on the faculty of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. His writing focuses on the articulation of individual and collective psychic life, including in the domains of gender, sexuality, racialized difference, and immigration. He has been the recipient of the Symonds Award, the Ralph E. Roughton Paper Award, and co-recipient of the JAPA Award for the Best Published Paper 2019. He serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, JAPA, and Parapraxis and on the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis. He practices privately in San Francisco and Oakland and in the public domain at Instituto Familiar de la Raza in San Francisco.