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Maximilian Kasy

Maximilian Kasy is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford.

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Rediet Abebe

Rediet Abebe is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, and cofounder of Mechanism Design for Social Good and Black in AI.

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Eric Reinhart

Eric Reinhart is a political anthropologist, psychoanalytic clinician, and social psychiatrist.

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Hari Ramesh

Hari Ramesh is Assistant Professor of Government at Wesleyan University.

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Erica X Eisen

Erica X Eisen has published in n+1, the Baffler, the Threepenny Review, AGNI, and the Washington Post. She is an editor at Hypocrite Reader.

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Julian K. Jarboe

Julian K. Jarboe is author of Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel. They are the recipient of a Writers’ Room of Boston Fellowship (2018), a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop (2018), an Honorable Mention from the Tiptree Fellowship (2018), and a residency from The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (2016). They graduated from The Massachusetts College of Art and Design with Academic Honors (2012).

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Panashe Chigumadzi

Panashe Chigumadzi is Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies at Brandeis University. She is author of the historical memoir These Bones Will Rise Again and the novel Sweet Medicine.

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Duncan Kelly

Duncan Kelly is Professor of Political Thought and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge and author of Politics and the Anthropocene.

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Nadia Marzouki

Nadia Marzouki is a Research Fellow at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris. Her work examines public controversies about Islam and religious freedom in Europe and the United States. Nadia is the author of Islam, an American Religion (Columbia University Press, 2017).

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Christina Knight

Christina Knight is Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at Haverford College. She directs knightworks dance theater, which she co-founded with her sister in 2013.

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Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez—poet, activist, scholar—was the Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Temple University. A pioneering writer of the Black Arts Movement, she is the author of sixteen books and the recipient of the Robert Frost Medal and the Langston Hughes Poetry Award.

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Gregory E. Kaebnick

Gregory E. Kaebnick is a research scholar at the Hastings Center, where he explores questions about the values at stake in developing and using biotechnologies and, particularly, in questions about the value given to nature and human nature. He is also the editor of the Hastings Center Report.

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Michael Patrick Lynch

Michael Patrick Lynch is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut. He is the director of the Humanities Institute and director of the New England Humanities Consortium. His work concerns truth, democracy, public discourse and the ethics of technology. Lynch's newest book is Know-it-All Society: Truth and Arrogance in Political Culture. 

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Jesse Bertron

Jesse Bertron is a plumber’s apprentice living in Austin, Texas. He has an MFA in Poetry from Vanderbilt University. He is codirector of Poetry at Round Top, an annual festival in rural Texas.

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Michelle Morse

Michelle Morse, MD, MPH, serves as the Deputy Commissioner for the Center for Health Equity and Community Wellness and the first ever Chief Medical Officer at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

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Bram Wispelwey

Bram Wispelwey, MD, MPH, is Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Senior Fellow at Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity.

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David Singh Grewal

David Singh Grewal is Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. His most recent book is The Invention of the Economy.

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Deborah Taffa

A citizen of the Quechan (Yuma Indian) Nation, Deborah Taffa’s writing can be found at dozens of outlets including PBS, SalonThe Huffington PostThe RumpusBrevityA Public Space, and the Best American series. Her memoir manuscript won the SFWP Literary Award in 2019. She teaches at Webster and Washington University in Saint Louis and lives on the island of Oahu. 

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Ryan Fontanilla

Ryan Fontanilla is a doctoral student in history at Harvard University and served in the United State Coast Guard.

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Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay is a curator, filmmaker, and Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. Her latest book is Potential History—Unlearning Imperialism.

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Tyehimba Jess

Tyehimba Jess is author of leadbelly and Olio, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He is Professor of English at College of Staten Island.

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Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals and Dub: Finding Ceremony. She is one of the guest editors of Boston Review’s second anthology from its Arts in Society project, Ancestors.  

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Duana Fullwiley

Duana Fullwiley is an anthropologist of science and medicine whose fieldwork with scientists, patients, and larger publics explores the interplay of genetics and cultural politics in Senegal, France, and the United States. She writes broadly about genetics, ethics, and how people imagine and seed ideas of human difference. She is the author of The Enculturated Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa as well as numerous articles on ancestry genetics in the United States. The larger themes of her work have also inspired her artistic engagements with medical power and scientific legacies that emerge in her poetry, published in Ars Medica. She has received awards from the Fulbright Scholars Program, the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council and the Wrenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.  She teaches at Stanford University.

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José Constantine

José Constantine is an assistant professor of Geosciences at Williams College, where he researches the evolution and construction of riverscapes. With support from the National Science Foundation, his recent work integrates the Earth Sciences with environmental activism.

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