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Jennifer Zacharia

Jennifer Zacharia is a Palestinian American human rights attorney. She delivered the 2022 Edward Said Memorial Lecture at The Jerusalem Fund.

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Kathleen Belew

Kathleen Belew is Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University and author of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America.

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Lisa L. Miller

Lisa L. Miller is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. Her next book, The Myth of Checks and Balances and the American Democratic Deficit, is under contract with University of Chicago Press.

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Willie Lee Kinard III

Willie Lee Kinard III (he/they) is a poet, designer, and musician forged in Newberry, South Carolina, and the author of Orders of Service, winner of the 2022 Alice James Award. With words in or forthcoming in Obsidian, The Adroit Journal, and The Rumpus, he is the winner of POETRY’s 2021 J. Howard & Barbara M. J. Wood Prize & an avid believer in evening thunderstorms & loose leaf tea. Go see ‘bout them at www.williekinard.com.

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Ronan Ryan

Ronan Ryan’s debut novel, The Fractured Life of Jimmy Dice, was named by the Irish Independent Review as one of their Books of the Year and was a finalist for The Lascaux Prize in Fiction.

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Rolando Rodriguez

Rolando Rodriguez is a Los Angeles-born Salvadoran artist who studied Architecture at Columbia University in the City of New York.

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Sanjukta Paul

Sanjukta Paul is Assistant Professor of Law at Wayne State University and author of the forthcoming book Solidarity in the Shadow of Antitrust: Labor and the Legal Idea of Competition.

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Andrea Scoseria Katz

Andrea Scoseria Katz is Associate Professor of Law at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis.

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Zachary Manfredi

Zachary Manfredi is the Litigation and Advocacy Director at the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project.

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Lin King

Lin King is a writer from Taipei, Taiwan. She translates from Mandarin Chinese and Japanese. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Joyland, Asymptote, Public Books, and The Margins, among others, and has won the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize. She is an MFA candidate and instructor of undergraduate writing at Columbia University.

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Stuart Streichler

Stuart Streichler is author of Justice Curtis in the Civil War Era: At the Crossroads of American Constitutionalism.

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Paul Gowder

Paul Gowder is Professor of Law at Northwestern University. His most recent book is The Rule of Law in the United States: An Unfinished Project of Black Liberation.

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Lolita Stewart-White

Lolita Stewart-White is a poet and filmmaker who lives and works in Miami. Her poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Green Mountains Review, Iowa Review, and African American Review. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Palm Beach Poetry Festival, and The Sundance Screenwriters Lab. She is the winner of the Paris-American Poetry Prize. Her films have been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Pan African-American Film and Arts Festival.

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Mie Inouye

Mie Inouye is Assistant Professor of Political Studies at Bard College, Curriculum Co-Director of the National Political Education Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America, and Cofounder of Reclaim Rhode Island. A political theorist and organizer, she has also written for Jacobin and The Forge.

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Josephine Ishmon

Josephine Ishmon is a writer, editor, and advocate for the education and welfare of homeless youth. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School and is currently working on two novels. Her writing has received support from the New School, the Norman Mailer Writers Colony, and the Mellon Foundation.

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Erica Smiley

Erica Smiley is the executive director of Jobs With Justice. A long-time organizer and movement leader, Smiley has been spearheading strategic organizing and policy interventions for Jobs With Justice for nearly fifteen years, serving in numerous leadership capacities including campaigns director and as senior field organizer for the southern region. Smiley co-authored The Future We Need: Organizing for a Better Democracy in the 21st Century with Sarita Gupta. As one of the few queer black women leaders in the labor movement, Smiley has helped to seed numerous initiatives that position and prioritize the demands and voices of vulnerable working people in socio-economic and political decisions that directly and indirectly impact their individual lives, families, and communities. As a seasoned organizer she has been a vocal advocate for mobilizing our movements to be aligned around a common agenda for working families.

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Harmony Goldberg

Harmony Goldberg is the Director or Praxis at the Grassroots Power Project. She has a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.

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Catalina Bartlett

Catalina Bartlett’s fiction has appeared in Aster(ix) Journal and twice has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is currently at work on Comadres: Stories and a novel, When Fabiola Came Home. Her writing draws from her matrilineal family history and early life along the southern Colorado–northern New Mexico corridor. She teaches at Michigan State University.

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Payton Croskey

Payton Croskey is a member of Princeton University’s class of 2023. She is a visual artist and tech justice scholar writing, coding and designing a liberatory future for all who refuse to submit to technology’s watchful eye. Pursuing a degree in African American Studies and a minor in Computer Science, Payton’s research seeks to uncover and develop ways of designing digital systems that protect and empower targeted communities. Payton is the creative content director for the Ida B Wells Just Data Lab, where she extends her studies by collaborating with community organizations to address the creation, reproduction and lack of data in underrepresented communities.

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Kenia Hale

Kenia Hale graduated from Yale University with a bachelor’s degree in Computing and the Arts with an Architecture concentration. Kenia is interested in environmental justice, racial justice, and the implications of big tech and surveillance on communities of color, especially across the midwest. As a CITP Emerging Scholar, Kenia is interested in either continuing her senior thesis research, or researching Black Digital Ecologies.

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Oliver Bullough

Oliver Bullough is author of Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How to Take It BackThe Last Man in Russia, and Let Our Fame Be Great, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and won the Cornelius Ryan Award. Bullough is a writer for the Guardian, and his work has been published by British GQ, the New York Times, and the BBC.

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Lori Gruen

Lori Gruen is the William Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University.

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M. Andler

M. Andler is the Louise M. Olmsted Fellow for Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at Lafayette College. Andler specializes in ethics, social ontology, and LGBTQIA+ philosophy.

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Alice Crary

Alice Crary is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Liberal Studies, and Gender & Sexuality Studies at the New School for Social Research. Her most recent book is Inside Ethics: On the Demands of Moral Thought.

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