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Sandeep Vaheesan

Sandeep Vaheesan is Legal Director at the Open Markets Institute and author of Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States.

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Kieran Setiya

Kieran Setiya teaches philosophy at MIT. His latest book is Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way.

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Emil Edenborg

Emil Edenborg is Associate Professor of Gender Studies at Stockholm University and Associate Research Fellow in the Global Politics and Security Programme at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.

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Reginald McKnight

Reginald McKnight is a short story writer and novelist. He has won the O. Henry Award, the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and the Whiting Writer’s Award, and many other awards and prizes for his work. In addition to writing, McKnight has been a professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Maryland, College Park, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is currently the Hamilton Holmes Professor at the University of Georgia in Athens. He is the author of He Sleeps, Moustapha’s Eclipse, I Get on the Bus, The Kind of Light that Shines on Texas, and White Boys. He is editor of African American Wisdom and Wisdom of the African World.

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Jackson Arn

Jackson Arn’s writing has appeared in Art in America, The Nation, and The Drift, among other publications. He is The Forward‘s contributing art critic.

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Katharine S. Walter

Katharine S. Walter is Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Utah, where she leads the Evo-Epi Laboratory.

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Emily Callaci

Emily Callaci is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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David Roediger

David Roediger us Foundation Professor of American Studies at University of Kansas. His books include The Sinking Middle Class and Class, Race, and Marxism.

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Jennifer R. Bernstein

Jennifer R. Bernstein is a writer and critic, and cofounder of The New Inquiry.

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Wendy A. Woloson

Wendy A. Woloson is Professor of History and Chair at Rutgers University-Camden. She has written extensively on American material and consumer culture, the history of capitalism, and secondary economies. Her books include In Hock: Pawning in American from Independence through the Great Depression (2009) and the co-edited volume, Capitalism by Gaslight: Illuminating the Economy of Nineteenth-Century America. Her most recent book is Crap: A HIstory of Cheap Stuff in America (2020), which will be out in paperback soon. More info can be found at: https://sites.rutgers.edu/wendy-woloson/.

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Marissa Grunes

Marissa Grunes is a Boston-based literary scholar and science writer who has published on the arts and the environment in Atlas Obscura, Nautilus, The Conversation, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in English Literature from Harvard University.

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Nate File

Nate File is a reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer. He was a 2021-22 Black Voices in the Public Sphere fellow at Boston Review.

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Marlon James

Marlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970. He is the author of the New York Times-bestseller Black Leopard, Red Wolf, which was a finalist for the National Book Award for fiction in 2019. His novel A Brief History of Seven Killings won the 2015 Man Booker Prize. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for fiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction, and the Minnesota Book Award. It was also a New York Times Notable Book. James is also the author of The Book of Night Women, which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Minnesota Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction and an NAACP Image Award. His first novel, John Crow’s Devil, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice.

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Laynie Browne

Laynie Browne’s most recent collections are P R A C T I C E, Scorpyn Odes, and Lost Parkour Ps(alms) in two editions, one in English and another in French. She is a 2014 Pew Fellow.

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Teresa M. Bejan

Teresa M. Bejan is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Oxford and author of Mere Civility.

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Don Mee Choi, Randall Horton, Kim Hyesoon, Meredith Talusan, Brian Teare, Bishakh Som, and more.

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Beth E. Richie

Beth E. Richie is head of the Department of Criminology, Law and Justice and Professor of Black Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her books include Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence and America’s Prison Nation.

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Gina Dent

Gina Dent is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Legal Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the editor of Black Popular Culture.

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Ida Harris

Ida Harris is managing editor of MadameNoire, a woman’s lifestyle site, and writes about the intersection of Blackness, culture, and womanhood. She is currently adapting her essay “The Ethics of Living #MeToo In A World of Bill Cosbys and Phylicia Rashads” into a collection of essays and working on a collection of short stories. Follow her on Twitter @_Hotpeeznbutta.

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Day Heisinger-Nixon

Day Heisinger-Nixon is a poet, interpreter, and translator. Raised in an ASL–English bilingual household in Fresno, CA, they hold an MA in Deaf Studies: Cultural Studies from Gallaudet University and are an MFA candidate in Creative Writing: Poetry at New England College. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ugly Duckling Presse’s Second Factory, Apogee, Foglifter, Peach Mag, and elsewhere. Soon to be based in Arles, in the South of France, they can be found online @__day_lily__ and at dayheisingernixon.com.

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Eleanor Davey

Eleanor Davey is a historian of humanitarianism and activism. Her book Idealism beyond Borders: The French Revolutionary Left and the Rise of Humanitarianism, 1954–1988 was published in 2015. Find her on Twitter @EleanorDavey.

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Baher Azmy

Baher Azmy is Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights.

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Ruth Berins Collier

Ruth Berins Collier is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Jake Grumbach

Jake Grumbach is Associate Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a contributing editor at Boston Review. He is author of Laboratories Against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics.