Press Coverage

Selected

Gulfshore Business

Southwest Florida businesses expand use of AI tools in 2025

A regional business magazine feature on AI adoption quotes Valev Laube as Director of AI at Dragon Horse Agency on where AI agents genuinely help: structured analysis and repetitive workflow tasks.

Broadway World

Broadway's Visual Artist Valev Laube Debuts 'Liminal' After 15 Years Of Musical Crafting

Coverage of the New Year's Day 2025 release of Liminal, an eighteen-track debut album of fifteen original compositions and three reimagined Estonian folk tunes drawn from fifteen years of writing.

January 2, 2025

Ärileht

New Yorgi eestlane nomineeriti Forbesi 30 mõjukaima noore sekka

New Yorgis elav disainer ja turundusspetsialist Valev Laube (24) on nomineeritud 2020. aasta Forbesi mainekasse alla 30-aastaste edetabelisse, kuhu seni on pääsenud vaid kolm eestlast.

November 13, 2019

Press

Vaba Eesti Sõna

Performance “Dawn till Dusk” at the New York Estonian House

The exciting multidisciplinary performance “Dawn till Dusk” brought together a full house of spectators to the New York Estonian House on June 4.

Vaba Eesti Sõna

Kristi Roosmaa Releases Her Award-Winning Indie Film “Wildflower”

The celebrated short film “Wildflower,” starring award-winning Estonian-born actress, singer, and producer Kristi Roosmaa, directed by Tony-nominated producer Celine Rosenthal and written by Artemis Women In Action Film Festival Screenplay winner Susan Cameron, is now available across all media!

December 16, 2021

Broadway World

Award-Winning Indie Film WILDFLOWER Starring Kristi Roosmaa Delivers An Emotional Immigrant Story

The short film had its World Premiere at FirstGlance Film Festival in Los Angeles

December 11, 2021

Broadway World

Alice Ripley and Ramin Karimloo to Lead KALEVALA Concept Album

The work is inspired by the national epic poem of Finland.

Broadway World

VIDEO: Kristi Roosmaa Performs 'Never Forget Who You Are' From SINGING REVOLUTION: THE MUSICAL

The song is written by Spinosa and Bearhart and speaks to the importance of embracing your true values in life.

October 13, 2020

Broadway World

Photo Flash: Behind the Scenes of SINGING REVOLUTION: THE MUSICAL Music Video

'Singing Revolution: the musical' tells the story of what can be accomplished by people during difficult times. Appropriately enough, the production of the music video for 'Never Forget Who You Are' shows how creative people from across the globe can come together under challenging conditions such as a pandemic to create.

October 1, 2020

Conversations

ETV - Välisilm

Välisilm, 25. Hooaeg, 708. Osa - USA valimised

Millise pitseri jätab USA valimistele koroonapandeemia? Millised võimalused on Valgesse Majja pääseda Joe Bidenil või ametis jätkata Donald Trumpil?

November 2, 2020

ERR

Broadway director writes musical about Singing Revolution

Inspired while on a vacation to Tallinn, Broadway director Tony Spinosa has written a musical about Estonia's Singing Revolution.

August 19, 2019

ERR

ERR USA-s: eestlased aitavad Kalevala-teemalist muusikali Broadwayle tuua

Kaks eestlast aitab Broadway lavale viia muusikali, mis põhineb Soome rahvuseeposel "Kalevala". Sama tee üritab läbi käia veel teinegi projekt, millel on Eestiga veel suurem seos.

ERR

Eesti jälg: USA

Eestit ja Ameerika Ühendriike seob eelkõige NATO ning koostöö julgeoleku tagamisel. Riikide vahel valitsevad head suhted, mida näitas hiljutine presidentide kohtumine Valges Majas. USA on ühtlasi koduks rohkem kui 25 000 eestlasele, kes eesti keelt ja meelt seal läbi aastakümnete alal on hoidnud.

Writing

The Northern Voices

The Third Generation Problem

The third generation inherits fragments rather than a culture — and chooses to go back to it, which is a different and arguably harder relationship to a heritage.

September 4, 2026

The Northern Voices

Hingedeaeg, or the Season We Left Behind

An Estonian autumn of weeks given over to the dead — food left out, work set down — and why almost none of it survived the crossing to North America.

September 4, 2026

The Northern Voices

What the Forest Knows That It Cannot Tell You

Mushroom foraging in Estonia as a case study in tacit knowledge — the kind of expertise that cannot be written down and has to be stood next to.

August 14, 2026

The Northern Voices

The Night Came Back, and I Had Forgotten What It Was For

In mid-August the darkness returns to the Baltic as a gift — and on how artificial light has displaced something essential to human and animal biology.

August 14, 2026

The Northern Voices

What a Bee Taught Me About Getting Lost on Purpose

A looping bee in an Estonian garden, the science of insect navigation, and a different way of understanding false starts and paths that only look aimless from the outside.

Cybernews

Ashutosh Syngal's Decentralized Vision for Secure Data in AI

An interview with Midcentury Labs' VP of Engineering on blockchain-backed, privacy-preserving AI that lets people own and monetise the data they contribute.

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Valev Laube

Valev Laube is a New York-based creative director, web developer, and AI strategist. He leads AI strategy at Dragon Horse Agency, co-founded The VL Studios, and founded The Northern Voices, the only publication covering all eight Nordic and Baltic communities across North America. Estonian-born. Forbes Under 30 nominee. Young European Heritage Makers Award, European Commission, 2022.