Yancey Strickler

CreativeMornings and L'Alliance New York present Yancey Strickler!

Yancey Strickler is a writer and entrepreneur who explores new creative forms. He's the Cofounder and Director of Metalabel, which is establishing new ways for creative people to create value together, cofounder and former CEO of Kickstarter, which pioneered crowdfunding and helped creators raise more than $8 billion for their projects, and cofounder of The Creative Independent, a resource of emotional and practical guidance for artists. He's the author of "This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World" (2019) and the essay "The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet" (2019), which became a book, "The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet" (2024), with a dozen other writers. His career began as a music critic writing for Pitchfork, Spin, and The Village Voice.

🎵 Performance by Caitlin Mahoney

Caitlin Mahoney is a Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter whose voice has been praised as “powerful and soulful - a mix of Adele and Fiona Apple.” Inspired by recent adventures of trying on new cities over the last few years, living in LA and then spending a year in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, Caitlin released her 3rd full-length album Name What I Need - a mature, hopeful reflection on boundaries, burnout and self-love drenched in synth pop sounds and featuring the warm, dynamic vocals she has become known for across the US and Europe. Her music has been featured on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, TV shows like Freeform's The Fosters and Good Trouble, as well as in Starbucks stores throughout the United States. Since 2013, Caitlin has played hundreds of shows across the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and Italy. Caitlin recently moved back in March 2025 to NYC and is happy to be back home working on new songs.