Posts in Cultivate your identity
Meet the huge, leaderless web of fans fueling BTS 🎶 Ashley Hackworth, BTS A.R.M.Y.

An interview hosted by Mia Quagliariello, Maggie Zhang, and Mira Zhang (Maggie’s little sister) with Ashley Hackworth, a savvy community builder who’s a leading force in A.R.M.Y. (adorable representative MC for youth), the K-pop supergroup BTS’s incredibly loyal, benevolent, and powerful fan base.

We talked with Ashley about how fans gather initially around BTS’s music, and then stay and unite for bigger causes.

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Ritual: Making the invisible, visible ✨ Casper ter Kuile, author of “The Power of Ritual”

After an early career in grassroots climate organizing, Casper earned masters degrees in Divinity and Public Policy from Harvard. While there, he started a reading community around the Harry Potter texts, that has grown to more than 70 chapters and millions of podcast listeners around the world.

In this episode, we will go deep on two things Casper knows a lot about: rituals and communal reading.

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