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Feisal Abdul Rauf

Feisal Abdul Rauf is a Sufi imam and founder of the Cordoba Initiative, which advocates improved understanding and trust between Muslim and non-Muslim Americans. He experienced the tensions of integration firsthand, at the center of the controversy over plans to build a cultural and community center near the World Trade Center site in Manhattan.

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John Bowen

John Bowen is an anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis. He has traveled the world, from Indonesia to France, exploring Islamic practice and the reception of Muslim immigrants in a wide variety of social contexts. He is the author of the Boston Review Book Blaming Islam.

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Andrea Louise Campbell

Andrea Louise Campbell is professor of political science at MIT and coauthor of The Delegated Welfare State: Medicare, Markets, and the Governance of Social Provision.

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Jina Moore

Jina Moore’s freelance work has appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, and Best American Science Writing (2009), as well as on public radio programs.

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Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) was author of numerous books of fiction, essays, history, and criticism.

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Russ Feingold

Russ Feingold is former U.S. Senator from Wisconsin and founder of Progressives United.

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Barbara Sinclair

Barbara Sinclair is Marvin Hoffenberg Professor Emerita of American Politics at UCLA and author of Party Wars: Polarization and the Politics of National Policy Making.

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John Ferejohn

John Ferejohn is Samuel Tildon Professor of Law at New York University.

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Amy Benson

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Kay Lehman Schlozman

Kay Lehman Schlozman is J. Joseph Moakley Professor of Political Science at Boston College and coauthor of The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy.

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Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias writes the Slow Boring newsletter on Substack.

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Larry M. Bartels

Larry M. Bartels is University Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. His latest book is Democracy Erodes from the Top: Leaders, Citizens, and the Challenge of Populism in Europe.

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Martin Gilens

Martin Gilens is Professor of Politics at Princeton University and author of Affluence & Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America.

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Susie Cagle

Susie Cagle has written and drawn for The Atlantic, the British Guardian, American Prospect, Truthout and other publications. She is currently working on a book about the Occupy movement in California.

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Alison Powell

Alison Powell’s poetry has appeared in AGNI, Black Warrior Review, and Guernica. She teaches at Hunter College.

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Torrie Valentine

Torrie Valentine holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte.

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Kiki Dimoula

Kiki Dimoula, winner of the 2009 European Prize for Literature, is author of the forthcoming The Brazen Plagiarist.

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Tung-Hui Hu

Tung-Hui Hu has written three poetry collections: The Book of Motion, Mine, and the forthcoming Greenhouses, Lighthouses.

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Kelly Fordon

Kelly Fordon's fiction, poetry and book reviews have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Montreal Review, Flashquake and various other journals. She is currently working towards her MFA in fiction writing at Queens University of Charlotte.

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BK Fischer

BK Fischer was poetry editor at Boston Review. She is the author of St. Rage’s Vault, winner of the 2012 Washington Prize; Mutiny Gallery, winner of the 2011 T. S. Eliot Prize; and Museum Mediations, a critical study. She teaches at the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center.

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Joe Weil

Joe Weil teaches at Binghampton University and is the author of The Great Grandmother Light. 

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Adam Fitzgerald

Adam Fitzgerald is the author of The Late Parade, which will appear in paperback this summer. He is founding editor of Maggy and a contributing editor for The American Reader. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, The New Yorker, BOMBand elsewhere. A Harriet Monroe Fellow at the Poetry Foundation, he will direct The Ashbery Home School this August. He lives in New York City. 

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Paula M.L. Moya

Paula M.L. Moya is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Program in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University. She is editor of Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century, and is currently working on a book entitled, The Social Imperative: Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literary Criticism.