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Bongani Madondo
Bongani Madondo is a cultural theorist, race matters critic, public arts curator, and journalist by training.The author most recently of Sigh, the Beloved County: Rock n Roll & Other Stories, a collection of memoirs, travelogues, long form narrative and essays. His books include Hot Type: Artists, Icons & God-Figurines (2007), portraits on African iconic figures in the cultural sphere, which was awarded the Africa selection and won him a Fellowship at the Katzen Centre for the Arts at The American University, Washington DC, and I’m Not Your Weekend Special: Portraits on the Life+Style & Politics of Brenda Fassie (2014), which he conceptualized, contributed to, and edited. All three of his books were published by Picador Africa (Pan MacMillan SA). Bongani has contributed to publications including the New York Times, Transition magazine, and Rolling Stone.
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John Summers
John Summers is a historian in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Sara Matthiesen
Sara Matthiesen is the author of Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice after Roe v. Wade. She is an assistant professor of history and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at George Washington University.
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Annie Howard
Annie Howard is a freelance writer and housing organizer based in Chicago.
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Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. is an American literary critic, professor, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
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Arthur M. Dixon
Arthur M. Dixon is a translator, interpreter, writer, and editor based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He works as Managing Editor and lead translator of the multilingual journal Latin American Literature Today, and he publishes his own writing at El Greñudo.
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Douglas Shadle
Douglas Shadle is Associate Professor of Musicology and Area Coordinator of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at the Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music. He is the author of Orchestrating the Nation: The Nineteenth Century American Symphonic Enterprise and Antonín Dvořák’s New World Symphony.
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Alexandre White
Alexandre White is Assistant Professor of Sociology and the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He is working on a book titled Epidemic Orientalism.
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Zeynep Pamuk
Zeynep Pamuk is Associate Professor in Contemporary Political Theory at Oxford and author of Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society.
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Jay S. Kaufman
Jay S. Kaufman is Professor of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health at McGill University.
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Sheila Jasanoff
Sheila Jasanoff is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Her most recent book is Can Science Make Sense of Life?
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Jana Bacevic
Jana Bacevic is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Durham University and author of a number of articles on the politics of knowledge, prediction, and the social sciences.
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Glen Weyl
Glen Weyl is Founder of the RadicalxChange Foundation, co-author with Eric Posner of Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society, and Microsoft’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer Political Economist and Social Technologist (OCTOPEST).
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Lisa Duggan
Lisa Duggan is a journalist, activist, and Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is author most recently of Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed.
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Christine Henneberg
Christine Henneberg practices women’s health and family planning in California.
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nia t. evans
nia t. evans is a freelance journalist based in New York City. Her work has appeared in Dissent, Prism, Electric Literature, Slate, and New York magazine. She was previously an editorial advisor at Hammer & Hope, a 2023–2024 Mother Jones investigative fellow, and a fellow at Boston Review.
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Brian Callaci
Brian Callaci is the Open Markets Institute’s Chief Economist, researching the affect of corporate power on workers, small businesses, and other groups. He previously worked at Workers United, SEIU, the Strategic Organizing Center (formerly Change to Win) and the Data & Society Research Institute.
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Diamond Forde
Diamond Forde’s debut collection, Mother Body, won the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. She has received numerous awards and prizes, including the Pink Poetry Prize, the Furious Flower Poetry Prize, and CLA’s Margaret Walker Memorial Prize. She is a Callaloo and Tin House fellow, whose work has appeared in Massachusetts Review, Ninth Letter, NELLE, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere.
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Racquel Goodison
Racquel Goodison is on faculty at the City University of New York. She has been a resident at Yaddo, Millay, and the Saltonstall Arts Colony as well as a recipient of the Astraea Emerging Lesbian Writer’s Grant and a scholarship to the Fine Arts Works Center. Her stories, poems, and creative nonfiction have been nominated for the Pushcart and can be found in such literary journals as the Obsidian, Pleiades, Your Impossible Voice, Kweli Journal, Her Kind, and Drunken Boat. Her chapbook, Skin, was a finalist for the 2013 Goldline Press Fiction Chapbook competition and the winner of the 2015 Creative Justice Press fiction chapbook competition.
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Jeffrey S. Kahn
Jeffrey S. Kahn is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis, and author of Islands of Sovereignty: Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire.
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Lucia Edafioka
Lucia Edafioka is earning an MFA in fiction from the University of Arizona. Her work has been published in Catapult, Popula, and the anthology Lagos to Limbe: Nonfiction from Cameroon and Nigeria. She is working on her debut novel.
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Andrew Spieldenner
Andrew Spieldenner (Ph.D., Howard University) is Executive Director of MPact: Global Action for Gay Health & Rights, Associate Professor of Health Communication at California State University-San Marcos, and a Visiting Scholar at Concordia University. Dr. Spieldenner is a community-engaged researcher and advocate with over 25 years of experience in HIV. Openly living with HIV, Dr. Spieldenner is currently North American Delegate to UNAIDS and Vice-Chair of the United States People Living with HIV Caucus. He is the co-editor of the books Intercultural Health Communication (Peter Lang, 2020) and the forthcoming Post-AIDS (Routledge) and A Pill for Promiscuity (Rutgers).
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