Pop Conference 2018

​​​​Emily Easton has a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Illinois at Chicago, as well as a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Chicago in sociology and social sciences, respectively. Her research focuses on how people choose music, with a specific focus on underground... Read More →

Megan Mitchell traverses the intersections of music, gender, and social justice in various capacities. As proprietor of the index of female/trans/non-binary composers of experimental music, Many Many Women, she acts as a media equity advocate. Mitchell is also a Master of Library... Read More →

Jes Skolnik has been writing about music for the past couple of decades and making noise from a young age. Born into DC punk via two hippie musicians and raised in zine culture, they are currently the managing editor of Bandcamp Daily, a contributor to Pitchfork and other publications... Read More →

Andy Zax  (@andyzax) is a Grammy-nominated music producer. His writing--under his own name and the pseudonym @Discographies--has appeared in Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, The Oxford American and elsewhere. The Village Voice hailed him as its music critic of the year in 2010, and... Read More →