Ashley Zelinskie is an artist into "space stuff." Behind an accessible, childlike joy for astronomy and the infinite wonders of planetary science and all things astro, is a deep desire to engage with hard science through the playful prism of artistic exploration and humble proximity intervention. Her works span a variety of media, from sculpture, canvas and print works, to digital art, VR, and holograms. Each artwork is created using cutting edge technology such as 3D printing, computer-guided laser cutting, satellite plating technology, and gaming engines. Her work focuses on visualizing data in abstract forms and finding new and interesting ways to describe complex ideas. On this episode, we discuss how her art, regardless of medium, not only responds to scientific efforts, but often inspires them.

Ashley’s work has been featured by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vice, Popular Science, Space.com, and more. Her work forms part of the permanent collection of the US Department of State Art in Embassies Program, The Whitney Museum’s artport collection, and has been exhibited at Sotheby’s New York, ArtScience Museum in Singapore and most recently Art Center Nabi in Seoul. Zelinskie is a former resident of New Inc.—the New Museum’s Art and Technology Incubator—and the Shapeways x Museum of Art and design “Out of Hand” exhibition residency. A graduate of RISD, she has worked alongside NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Smithsonian and she is a member of Onassis ONX XR studio in New York City. She has a solo exhibition in November 2026 with Heft Gallery in NYC that is set to interrogate the tricky dichotomy between public and private spacefaring agencies, informed by her unique, up-close, hands-on experience.

Not many natural-born networking gurus go as hard as Gary Su, while somehow remaining so consistently sweet. Breaking onto the scene as the formative manager and "confidant" of the multi-award-winning musical prodigy Jon Batiste (The Late Show with Steven Colbert), Su (Gary-get it?), has since organically amassed a huge network of contacts, which DK Kim, an experienced marketing and sales professional, has since leveraged into a widely-read, bi-weekly newsletter and now, a new web-application, SugaryNYC. On this episode, the duo talks about connecting over fitness during the Covid years and how "everything in moderation" shouldn't just be a dreamy aphorism for busy New Yorkers. The deeper lesson is how Americans, regardless of their place of origin, must contend with the highly-pressurized mandate to consistently capitalize everything in their lives-from hobbies to human contacts. This has perhaps become normalized to the point of conscious erasure, but what does this mean for our minds, bodies and souls? How do we prevent one or all elements of this human trifecta from burning out? What does it mean to shepherd natural, superstar talents as well as artists who need a little more hands-on advocacy and support? DK Kim and Gary Su (Salty & Sweet respectively) share all they've learned about collaboration, networking, community building, events-planning, promotion, and a whole lot more.

Charlie Fisher is a European researcher, architect, and founder working at the intersection of community land trusts, regenerative land use, and decentralized governance. He co-founded Transition by Design, a cooperative architecture practice in Oxford, and spent over a decade building affordable housing infrastructure through the Oxfordshire Community Land Trust and the Collaborative Housing Hub. He's been a member of Dark Matter Labs, where he contributed to work on alternative property systems and commons-based landholding. In 2022 he co-founded OASA, a Swiss Association behind what's described as the first tokenized land trust in Europe — a 30-hectare regenerative living project in Portugal known as Traditional Dream Factory. He is pursuing (Fall 26) a PhD in urban affordable housing delivery from Oxford Brookes University. Why Charlie on Good Standing right now? Terms like "oligarchy" and "techno feudalism" have rightfully saturated the international lexicon, as wealth disparity swells exponentially in parallel with the rising cost of living. Millions of jobs erased, strained life in urban centers, the shifting nature of work, and the lack of affordable housing have collectively reached an inflection point. All "poly-crisis dooming" aside (or not), perhaps ancient models of shared land ownership are in need of a contemporary update?

Patricia Lizarraga is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of the Hypatia Women CEO Index & ETF (ticker: WCEO), impact investing in American public companies with women CEOs under the thesis that women leaders tend to outperform their male counterparts at the highest executive level. Yet, only 10% of CEOs at Fortune 500 companies are currently women. On this episode of the Good Standing podcast, we discuss exactly why the obstacles and barriers women have to uniquely navigate better prepare them for the CEO role. We examine the complicated portrayal of women CEOs in recent films like Babygirl (2024) and Bugonia (2025) and the emergence of a potential zeitgeist concerning this perceived archetype, tracing back to Hypatia (believed to be born around 350 AD) herself. Patricia Lizarraga has over 30 years of Wall Street experience, at firms including Allen & Co; Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, and Citi, and has been focused on investing in women since 2007. Ms. Lizarraga Chair’s the Audit Committee for Credicorp, Ltd. and Banco de Credito del Peru, the largest financial conglomerate and universal bank in Peru, respectively, and she is a Trustee of the Museum of Art of Lima. She boasts an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a B.A. from Yale University.

Haym Gross, District Chairman of NYC2030, an organization focused on clean energy initiatives and boasting partners in multiple cities across America, returns to the Good Standing podcast with David Klatt, CEO of Logical Buildings (smart building & energy tech) and its mobile application GridRewards, which provides monetary compensation directly to New York City and Westchester County residents (Con Edison customers) for reducing their energy usage at peak times throughout the calendar year. This is the first Good Standing episode that directly promotes a collaborative campaign between technology and civic impact partners. All parties discuss how digital technology and social media can be reconfigured to directly support initiatives that positively affect the world around us. Can GridRewards expand from its roughly 25k current NYC users to 100k by April, 2026? Why not one million users? Why not all of ConEd's 3.7 million electric customers? How can Good Standing as a web and mobile application and companion podcast help initiatives like GridRewards x NYC2030 "go viral" at a time when so many US and global citizens feel overwhelmed or ineffectual in the face of hyper-object environmental, political, and economic uncertainty? What would society-our future-look like if we traded in "doom-scrolling" for campaigns that directly foster collective hope, impact, and meaningful change?

For over 30 years, JazzReach, the national, Brooklyn-based nonprofit, founded by composer and drummer Hans Schuman, has brought the magic of high-level live jazz to over one million students across 42 states. Schuman, our featured guest on the latest episode of Good Standing, launched the organization after selling his late grandmother's Steinway piano for much-needed seed money. Since 1994, JazzReach has been helping audiences of all ages, but especially young people, not to learn jazz instrumentation necessarily, but to explore the wonders of deep listening, the art of sharing time and space, and the lucid joys of improvisation, encouragement, and creativity. This is achieved through evolving multi-media presentations that mix and merge scripted educational context with the raw, in-person experience of live jazz. Like any serious jazz aficionado, Schuman takes the subject-its history, lineage, and cultural influence-quite seriously, but he's also light on his feet, thankfully. We discuss jazz as a metaphor for the democratic ideal, what it means to be a Hipster Jazz Pusher-man (see: "Jerry Maguire," the latest season [5] of "Stranger Things," and more), how major players like Billy Joel and John Mayor have supported in the past, and of course, the seemingly addicting, intellectual obsessiveness of the jazz rabbit hole. Many of jazz's great players are discussed, from Miles to Mingus, but not least of all, John Coltrane, whose centennial is fast approaching.

The "bad boy" winner of Project Runway season 3, Jeffrey Sebelia, is now the seasoned good guy Design Director of Urbane & Gallant, a new Los Angeles-based menswear line brought forth by CEO, Founder, and entrepreneurial activist, Andrew Park. The stylish gents recently joined the Good Standing podcast to discuss how their new fashion line firmly rebukes notions of "greenwashing," going several steps further to ensure that all stages of their supply chain proudly and transparently resonate with real world impact. As a benefit corporation, the brand is committed to creating positive social and environmental impact by, among other methods, sourcing from organizations that produce sustainable fabrics in New Zealand and protect the country's endangered wetlands; to the fight against global human trafficking. Urbane & Gallant has aligned with organizations domestically and abroad that both hunt down and dismantle trafficking rings, as well as those that liberate and later, responsibly employ rehabilitated victims in the fashion production industry, further enshrining fair labor practices within it. The discussion touches on the fabricated and often surreal unreality of "Reality TV," what "masculinity" looks, sounds and feels like in 2025, the unfortunately vast and complicated issue of global human trafficking, and how their fashion brand ensures that "luxury should be a force for good-one that benefits both the people and the planet."

Earlier this year (2025) saw ChaShaMa's last-ever annual fundraising gala. For three decades, this wild and storied event, often taking place in repurposed New York City commercial real estate and featuring dozens of diverse artists and performers, raised funds for creatives at all stages of their careers to help place them in studio, retail, and exhibition spaces, more often than not, completely free of charge. On this episode of the Good Standing podcast, Durst, a disciple of the late theatre director and activist, Reza Abdoh, reflects on thirty years of hunting down unique spaces for art activations, being a rebellious teen, growing up with learning disabilities and transcending them, the responsibilities of her own privilege as it relates to her family, recent success stories within ChaShaMa, and what's next for her and commercial real estate in general. Anita brings her well-earned wisdom, playful mischievousness, and loose, quirky charm to this swift and informative episode.