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Katrina Lantos Swett

Katrina Lantos Swett is the Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).

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Rachel Galvin

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Peter Sacks

Books of poetry include Necessity, O Wheel, and Natal Command.

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Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd is Professor of Politics at Northwestern University. Her most recent book is Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion.

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Justin Wymer

MFA student in poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop

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Noelle Kocot

Noelle Kocot is the author of seven collections of poetry, including The Bigger World, Soul in Space, and Phantom Pains of Madness, due this May from Wave Books. She is the current poet laureate of Pemberton Borough, NJ.

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Michael Zapruder

Michael Zapruder is an award-winning songwriter, composer, and record-maker whose most recent work, Pink Thunder, is a collection of free verse pop art-songs made from the poems of more than twenty contemporary American poets.

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Dan Chelotti

Dan Chelotti is the author of x (McSweeney's, 2013). He is an assistant professor of English at Elms College.

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J. Phillip Thompson

J. Phillip Thompson is Professor of Political Science and Urban Planning at MIT. His most recent book is Double Trouble: Black Mayors, Black Communities, and the Call for a Deep Democracy.

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Edward Lee

Edward Lee is Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Intellectual Property Law at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. He is author of the forthcoming book The New Free Speech.

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Josey Foo

Josey Foo, an immigrant of peranakan descent from Malaysia, is Associate Attorney to the Chief Justice of the Navajo Nation. A poet and writer, she recently co-authored A Lily Lilies with Leah Stein and is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship recipient.

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Massoud Hayoun

Massoud Hayoun is World Affairs Editor at The Vancouver Observer, where he writes a daily column on China. He has reported on China, North America, the Middle East, and North Africa for The Atlantic, Newsweek, TIME, and Agence France Presse.

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Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr.

Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr. is Chief Counsel of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and previously served as Chief Counsel to the Church Committee (formerly known as the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Activities with Respect to Intelligence Activities).

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Charles Fried

Charles Fried is Beneficial Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and former Solicitor General under President Reagan.

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Chris Martin

Chris Martin is editor at Futurepoem books and author of two chapbooks, enough and the serially released CHAT.

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Ted Mathys

Ted Mathys is the author of three books of poetry, Null Set, The Spoils, and Forge. He lives in Saint Louis and teaches at Saint Louis University. 

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Trevor Quirk

Trevor Quirk is a freelance writer living in Boston. His work can be found at trevorquirk.com.

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Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez

Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez is a columnist at the Venezuelan daily El Universal and has written for The New York Times, The New Republic, and Foreign Policy.

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Gimena Sánchez

Gimena Sánchez is Senior Associate at the Washington Office on Latin America.

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Adam Goodman

Adam Goodman is Associate Professor in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies and Department of History at the University of Illinois Chicago and author of The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants.

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Tanya Golash-Boza

Tanya Golash-Boza is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merced and author of Immigration Nation: Raids, Detentions, and Deportations in Post-9/11 America.

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Beth Schwartzapfel

Beth Schwartzapfel’s reporting has appeared in Mother Jones, The Nation, and The New York Times.

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Joe Fassler

Joe Fassler is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and frequent contributor to The Atlantic.

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Amy B. Dean

Amy Dean is a fellow of The Century Foundation and principal of ABD Ventures, LLC, an organizational development consulting firm that works to develop new and innovative organizing strategies for social change organizations. Dean is co-author, with David Reynolds, of A New New Deal: How Regional Activism Will Reshape the American Labor Movement. Dean has worked for nearly two decades at the cross section of labor and community based organizations linking policy and research with action and advocacy. You can follow Amy on twitter @amybdean, or she can be reached via www.amybdean.com.