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Juliet Hooker

Juliet Hooker is Professor of Political Science at Brown. Her books include Race and the Politics of Solidarity and Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss.

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Nathan R. DuFord

Nathan R. DuFord is Assistant Professor of Government at Smith College and author of Solidarity in Conflict.

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Daniel Martinez HoSang

Daniel Martinez HoSang is Professor of American Studies at Yale University, a member of the Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning Collective, and a longtime organizer and organizer trainer. His most recent book is A Wider Type of Freedom: How Racial Justice Liberates Everyone.

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Maia Silber

Maia Silber is a PhD student in history at Princeton. She has also written for The New Yorker, Jacobin, and the Washington Post.

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Anna Krauthamer

Anna Krauthamer is a PhD candidate in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia. Her writing has appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books and Public Books.

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Clark Randall

Clark Randall is a graduate student and independent journalist from St. Louis, Missouri. His writing has also appeared in The Nation, Jacobin, and The New Inquiry.

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Kelly Hayes

Kelly Hayes is a Menominee organizer and writer. She is coauthor, with Mariame Kaba, of Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care.

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Mariame Kaba

Mariame Kaba is an organizer and founder of Project NIA, which works to end youth incarceration. Her latest book, coauthored with Kelly Hayes, is Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care.

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Enver Motala

Enver Motala is research associate with the Centre for Integrated Post-School Education and Training at Nelson Mandela University. He is co-editor with Salim Vally of Against Racial Capitalism: Selected Writings by Neville Alexander.

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Salim Vally

Salim Vally is Professor and Director of the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation at the University of Johannesburg. He is co-editor with Enver Motala of Against Racial Capitalism: Selected Writings by Neville Alexander.

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Thomas Meaney

Thomas Meaney is editor of Granta and serves on the editorial committee of New Left Review. He completed a PhD in history at Columbia.

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David Scott

David Scott is Ruth and William Lubic Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. His latest book is Stuart Hall’s Voice: Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity.

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David J. Chalmers

David J. Chalmers is University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science & co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at NYU. His most recent book is Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy.

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Jamel Brinkley

Jamel Brinkley is the author of Witness: Stories and A Lucky Man: Stories, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Raised in Brooklyn and the Bronx, he teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

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Peter Kazon

Peter Kazon practiced law before turning to writing full-time. He splits his time, along with his husband and golden retriever, between Washington, D .C., and Provincetown, MA. This story is part of an interconnected group of stories, another of which was published in The Beloit Fiction Journal in 2022. He can be reached on Twitter @peter_kazon.  

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Aaron Magloire

Aaron Magloire is from Queens and studies English and African American Studies at Yale University. His work has appeared in the 2021 Best New Poets anthology, Quarterly West, and elsewhere.

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Shobita Parthasarathy

Shobita Parthasarathy is Professor of Public Policy and director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at the University of Michigan. She cohosts the Received Wisdom podcast.

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Stephen Van Evera

Stephen Van Evera is Professor of Political Science Emeritus at MIT.

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Noel Quiñones

Noel Quiñones is a Puerto Rican writer, educator, and community organizer from the Bronx. He holds an MFA from the University of Mississippi, where he was the 2019 John and Renée Grisham Poetry Fellow.

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Zoharah Simmons

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Michael Simmons

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Jeffery Renard Allen

Jeffery Renard Allen is the award-winning author of six books of fiction and poetry, including Fat Time and Other Stories and Song of the Shank. He lives in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he is at work on the memoir Mother-Wit.