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David Hogg

David Hogg is an activist and survivor of the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida. He is a lead organizer for the March For Our Lives Movement and coauthor of #NeverAgain: A New Generation Draws the Line.

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William E. Forbath

William E. Forbath is Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Law at UT Austin School of Law and co-author of The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution.

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Joseph Fishkin

Joseph Fishkin is Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law and co-author of The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution.

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Meena Krishnamurthy

Meena Krishnamurthy is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Queen’s University.

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Mary Bernstein

Mary Bernstein is Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut and co-editor of Queer Mobilizations: LGBT Activists Confront the Law.

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Maya Marshall

Maya Marshall is the author of All the Blood Involved in Love. The recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, MacDowell, and Callaloo, she currently serves as the 2021–23 Poetry Fellow at Emory University.

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Max Haiven

Max Haiven is a writer and teacher and Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination. His most recent books are Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire (2022), Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts (2020), and Art after Money, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization (2018).

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Sameer Ashar

Sameer Ashar is Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Workers, Law, and Organizing Clinic at UC Irvine School of Law.

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Donia Elizabeth Allen

Donia Elizabeth Allen’s poems have appeared in Agni, jubilat, and other literary journals. Her critical writing about Gayl Jones’s fiction has appeared in Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University and an MA in Afro-American Studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She did her undergraduate studies at Brown University.

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Matt Nadel

Matt Nadel is a journalist and filmmaker based in New York. His writing has appeared in ScalawagPalm Beach Post, and Soft Punk, among other publications. His documentary 120 YEARS won Best Short Documentary at the Pan African Film Festival.

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Randall Horton

Randall Horton is author of the memoir Dead Weight and several books of poetry, including Pitch Dark Anarchy and The Lingua Franca of Ninth Street. He is the recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award and is Professor of English at the University of New Haven.

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Emma Lower

Emma Lower was an Editorial Assistant at Boston Review. She holds a master’s degree from University of California–Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree from Yale.

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Mary Kathryn Nagle

Mary Kathryn Nagle is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation and the former Executive Director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program.

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Jack Parlett

Jack Parlett is author of The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr and Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise, which was named an Editor’s Pick by the New York Times, as well as the poetry chapbook Same Blue, Different You. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Literary Hub, Poetry London, and elsewhere.

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Yiru Zhang

Yiru Zhang, born in Nanjing, China, is a finalist for the John Steinbeck Award for Fiction and a recipient of the Literary Journal’s New Criticism Award. She has works published or forthcoming in Reed Magazine, the Florida Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Gordon Square Review, and other venues. She is currently working on a collection of short stories threading boundaries, brokenness, and intimacy.

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Meredith Talusan

Meredith Talusan is the author of the memoir Fairest, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, and has written for the New York Times, the Guardian, the Atlantic, LitHub, Guernica, Catapult, and many other publications. Meredith has also contributed to several books, most recently the fiction collection Anonymous Sex. Meredith lives in Baryville, New York and teaches in the MFA programs at Antioch College and Sarah Lawrence College.

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Simone Person

Simone Person is a Black queer femme born and raised in the Midwest. They are a two-time Pink Door Writing Retreat fellow and the managing editor of just femme & dandy, as well as the communications leader and a company member at Queer Cat Productions. Their debut prose chapbook, Dislocate, won Honeysuckle Press’ 2017 Chapbook Contest, and their debut poetry chapbook, Smoke Girl, won Diode Editions’ 2018 Chapbook Contest.

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Adebe DeRango-Adem

Adebe DeRango-Adem is a writer and former attendee of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (Naropa University), where she mentored with poets Anne Waldman and Amiri Baraka. She is the author of Vox HumanaEx Nihilo, a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize; Terra Incognita, nominated for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award; and The Unmooring. A poem from The Unmooring was featured in the 2019 Poem-In-Your-Pocket anthology, co-created by the League of Canadian Poets and the Academy of American Poets. Adebe served as the 2019–20 Barbara Smith Writer-in-Residence with Twelve Literary Arts (Cleveland, Ohio) and was selected by Sonia Sanchez as the winner of the 2021 Boston Review Annual Poetry Contest. She lives in Toronto.

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Nijla Mu’min

Nijla Mu’min is a writer and filmmaker from the East Bay Area. Her debut feature film, Jinn, premiered at the 2018 South By Southwest Film Festival, where she won the Special Jury Recognition Award for Screenwriting.

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Edin Hajdarpašić

Edin Hajdarpašić is Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago and author of Whose Bosnia? Nationalism and Political Imagination in the Balkans, 1840–1914.

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Raja Shehadeh

Raja Shehadeh, a Palestinian lawyer and writer, is founder of the human rights organization Al-Haq. His many books include What Does Israel Fear from Palestine? and, most recently, Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials, coauthored with Penny Johnson. He won the Orwell Prize in 2008 for his book Palestinian Walks.

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Lucy Song

Lucy Song is a PhD candidate in Government at Harvard.

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Jonna Perrillo

Jonna Perrillo is an education historian and Associate Professor of English Education at the University of Texas at El Paso. She is author of Educating the Enemy: Teaching Nazis and Mexicans in the Cold War Borderlands.

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Irina Zherebkina

Irina Zherebkina is a Professor of Theory of Culture and Philosophy of Science at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University and a founder of the Kharkiv Center for Gender Studies.

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