Phillip Picardi is an award-winning journalist and editor best known for rebranding Teen Vogue. Picardi is the founding editor of them. and the current editor-in-chief of OUT Magazine. He is also the current host of the Crooked Media podcast Unholier Than Thou.

“Beauty is a divine right, and that by some religions’ desires to shame or malign out bodies, they robbed us of our divine potential.”

Picardi focused his MRPL project on conceiving and writing his forthcoming memoir, loosely titled, "Is Jesus Kinda Hot?" From May 1st Through May 11th, he published a series of posts on his newsletter Religiously Blonde, that explored some of the most important or revelatory lessons from his time at Harvard. His presentation unfolded on Religiously Blonde's Instagram account and culminated in an Instagram Live event with the New York Times bestselling author and poet Cleo Wade to celebrate the end of the program.