Jo Weldon is a founding member of the Burlycon team, volunteering every year since the first. She is an internationally-recognized author, lecturer, emcee, performer, and instructor. She founded the New York School of Burlesque in 2004, and it’s still going strong. She has also been a member of the production team at The Burlesque Hall of Fame since 2004. Her first book, The Burlesque Handbook, was published in 2010, and her second book Fierce: The History of Leopard Print, was released in 2018. Her current project as a scholar-in-residence at The Center for Research in the Humanities examines the intersections of sex work, fashion, and culture. Visit her at joweldon.com.