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Nicole Rudick

Nicole Rudick is the managing editor of The Paris Review.

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Richard B. Freeman

Richard B. Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University.

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Michaele L. Ferguson

Michaele L. Ferguson is Associate Professor of Political Science and Faculty Associate in the Women and Gender Studies Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her books include Sharing Democracy and W Stands for Women: How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender, co-edited with Lori J. Marso.

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Bruce Schneier

Bruce Schneier is a public interest technologist and lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy
School. His latest book is A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and
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Jeremy K. Kessler

Jeremy K. Kessler is David Berg Foundation Scholar at NYU School of Law.

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Jennifer Granick

Jennifer Granick is Director of Civil Liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society.

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Rebecca MacKinnon

Rebecca MacKinnon, Director of the Ranking Digital Rights project at the New America Foundation, is author of Consent of the Networked.

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Adam Kern

Adam Kern is Michael von Clemm Fellow at the University of Oxford.

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Reed Hundt

Reed Hundt was Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission from 1993 until 1997. He is CEO of Making Every Vote Count and author of A Crisis Wasted: Barack Obama’s Defining Decisions.

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Daniel DiSalvo

Daniel DiSalvo is an assistant professor of political science in the Colin Powell School at the City College of New York-CUNY and author of Government Against Itself.

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Vesla M. Weaver

Vesla M. Weaver, Assistant Professor of Political Science and African American Studies at Yale University. She is coauthor, with Amy E. Lerman, of Arresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control.

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Laura Eve Engel

Laura Eve Engel's work has appeared in Crazyhorse, Colorado Review, Columbia Poetry Review, and Tin House.

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Joel Brouwer

Joel Brouwer, Professor of English at the University of Alabama, is author of three books of poems, most recently And So.

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Traci Brimhall

Traci Brimhall is author of Our Lady of the Ruins and Rookery.

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Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Antonia Lloyd-Jones, a translator of Polish fiction, journalism, children's books, and poetry, has twice won the Found in Translation prize.

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Tim Cohen

Tim Cohen is Editor of Financial Mail and a columnist for Business Day, both South African publications. His book A Piece of the Pie: The Battle Over Nationalisation was released in 2012.

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Courtney Kampa

Courtney Kampa holds an MFA from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in Drunken Boat, New England Review, and Triquarterly.

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Christopher J. Adamson

Christopher J. Adamson’s poetry, creative nonfiction, and criticism have appeared in ZYZZYVASouthwest ReviewWest Branch, the Iowa Review, and the Seattle Review, among other publications. He lives in Oakland.

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Amy Moran-Thomas

Amy Moran-Thomas is Alfred Henry and Jean Morrison Hayes Career Development Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT. She is author of Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic.

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Randall Mann

Randall Mann is the author of three poetry collections, Complaint in the Garden, Breakfast with Thom Gunn and, most recently, Straight Razor. He lives in San Francisco.

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Diana Arterian

Diana Arterian is a doctoral candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at USC. She is a poetry editor at Noemi Press and a managing editor of Ricochet. Diana is the author of Death Centos (Ugly Duckling Presse), and her writing and translations have appeared in AsymptoteBlack Warrior Review, CircumferenceDenver QuarterlyTwo Serious Ladies, and The Volta, among others.

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Wayne Koestenbaum

Wayne Koestenbaum is a poet, critic, and artist.  He has published nine books of nonfiction, on such subjects as hotels, Harpo Marx, humiliation, Jackie Onassis, opera, and Andy Warhol;  his cult classic, The Queen’s Throat:  Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire (Poseidon, 1993), was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award.  His latest book of prose is My 1980s & Other Essays (FSG, 2013).  His six books of poetry include Blue Stranger with Mosaic Background (Turtle Point, 2012) and Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films (Turtle Point, 2006).  He has also published a novel, Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes (Soft Skull, 2004).  His first solo exhibition of paintings was at White Columns gallery in New York in Fall 2012.  He is a Distinguished Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center.

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Philippe Van Parijs

Philippe Van Parijs is Professor of Economic, Social and Political Sciences at the University of Louvain and co-author of Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Soceity and a Sane Economy.

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Jessica Pishko

Jessica Pishko is an  independent journalist and lawyer. Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times and The Nation.

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