Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University

Panelists:     

James Lieber ’71
Founding Partner, Lieber Hammer Huber Paul & Hoffman

Eva Aridjis-Fuentes ’96
Film Director and Writer

Brady Walkinshaw ’06
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Noisy Creek

Lillian Xu ’16
Vice President of Podcasts, Vox Media

PANELISTS

James Lieber ’71
A civil rights lawyer and Supreme Court practitioner, James Lieber writes on law and society, including crime, prisons, street gangs, trials, drugs, sentencing, fraud, labor, bioethics and voting rights for The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Mother Jones, The Village Voice, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Social Policy and others. His books include “Friendly Takeover: How an Employee Buyout Saved a Steel Town,” nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; “Rats in the Grain: The Dirty Tricks and Trials of Archer Daniels Midland,” serialized in Regardie’s magazine; and “Killer Care: How Medical Error Became America’s Third Largest Cause of Death, and What Can Be Done About It,” twice an Amazon bestseller. His current project is an imagined 1879 case against Huckleberry Finn for killing his father.

Eva Aridjis-Fuentes ’96
Eva Aridjis-Fuentes is a Mexican-American filmmaker and writer. She directed the narrative features “The Favor” and “The Blue Eyes” and the documentaries “Children of the Street,” “La Santa Muerte” (narrated by Gael García Bernal), “Chuy,” “The Wolf Man” and “Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus.” Her films screened at many festivals, including Sundance and Edinburgh, in theaters in the U.S., Mexico and the U.K., and on the Sundance and Criterion channels. They have all been nominated for or won prizes, including two Ariel awards (Mexican Academy awards) for “Children of the Street,” and the audience awards for best documentary at the Morelia, Harlem and Musical Écran festivals for “Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus.” Aridis-Fuentes attended New York University’s Graduate Film program, where she later taught screenwriting. A writer for “Narcos: Mexico,” Season 2 (Netflix), she also wrote the graphic novel “Monarca” (2022).

Brady Walkinshaw ’06
Brady Walkinshaw is the founder of Noisy Creek, a media company dedicated to reinvigorating local newspapers and media outlets nationwide. Prior to Noisy Creek, Brady was the CEO of Earth Alliance and CEO of Grist.org, an American nonprofit online magazine founded in 1999 that publishes environmental news and commentary. Walkinshaw has also served as a state representative in Washington. Through his work, he has developed an outstanding perspective on the changing media landscape on policy issues.

Lillian Xu ’16
In her role at Vox Media, Lillian Xu leads growth, talent partnerships and show development, working with podcasts like “Today, Explained” and shows led by Kara Swisher, Scott Galloway, Esther Perel, Marques Brownlee, Brené Brown, Adam Grant, Sue Bird, Jake Sullivan and more. Prior to Vox Media, she worked at New York Public Radio and like many Princeton grads, she started her career in consulting. In college, Xu studied Chinese politics, snuck in as many creative writing classes as possible and spent many hours singing with the Glee Club and the Tigerlilies. She now lives in New York, where she is professionally obligated to listen to a lot of podcasts and can also be found playing racquet sports, making tea and talking to random people in cafés.