Yahdon Israel is a cultural strategist, editor, and founder of The Compound Collective and the School of Cultural Stewardship. Formerly a senior editor at Simon & Schuster, he works at the intersection of literature, culture, and community to steward important ideas into use for the people they are meant to serve. He is the creator of Literaryswag, a cultural movement that brings literature and fashion into conversation to make books accessible and aspirational. Yahdon is also the creator of The Fiction Revival, a reading community inspiring heterosexual men to read more fiction, and the Advanced Readers Club, a cultural institution […]
