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Dan Berger

Dan Berger is Associate Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington Bothell, where he curates the Washington Prison History Project. His most recent book is Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family’s Journey.

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Premilla Nadasen

Premilla Nadasen is a historian who has written extensively on working-class resistance and women of color.  She teaches at Barnard College and is currently president of the National Women's Studies Association. She is author of Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women who Built a Movement (2015). She is also a member of the Coordinating Committee of Scholars for Social Justice.

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Leith Mullings

Leith Mullings (1945–2020) was Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

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Robyn C. Spencer

Robyn C. Spencer is a historian of the Black Freedom struggle who teaches at Lehman College, CUNY. She is the author of The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender and the Black Panther Party (Duke University Press, 2016) and a member of the Campaign to Bring Mumia Home and Black for Palestine. She is also a member of the Coordinating Committee of Scholars for Social Justice.

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Alan Wald

Alan Wald is the H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor Emeritus of English Literature and American Culture at the University of Michigan. He is the author of a trilogy from the University of North Carolina Press about writers and Communism in the United States, as well as an editor of Against the Current and Science & Society.

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Jeremy Shapiro

Jeremy Shapiro is the Director of Research at the European Council on Foreign Relations and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

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Rigoberto González

Rigoberto González is the author of seventeen books of poetry and prose. His awards include a Guggenheim fellowship, an NEA, a USA Rolón fellowship, and an American Book Award. His memoir What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography. Currently, he directs the MFA program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey.

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Jeffrey C. Isaac

Jeffrey C. Isaac is James H. Rudy Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington and senior editor at Public Seminar. His public writing has appeared in Dissent, The Nation, and Democracy, among other publications.

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Lorgia García-Peña

Lorgia García-Peña is Professor of Latinx Studies at the Effron Center for the Study of America and the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. She is author of The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nations and Archives of Contradictions.

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Kiese Laymon

Kiese Laymon is a black southern writer from Jackson, Mississippi, and a Professor of English and Creative Writing. He is author of three books, including Heavy: An American Memoir and the forthcoming Good, God.

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Attila Mraz

Attila Mraz is a Fellow-in-Residence at Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. He earned his PhD in philosophy from Central European University. His research focuses on political ethics as well as legal and political theory.

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Julie Kohler

Julie Kohler is Fellow in Residence at the National Women's Law Center and a senior advisor to the Democracy Alliance, a progressive donor network. She earned her PhD in family social science from the University of Minnesota.

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Trisha Greenhalgh

Trisha Greenhalgh is a medical doctor and Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford, where she co-directs the Interdisciplinary Research in Health Sciences Unit.

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Sunaura Taylor

Sunaura Taylor Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management at the University of California, Berkeley. Her latest book is Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert.

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John P. A. Ioannidis

John P. A. Ioannidis is professor of medicine, epidemiology and population health, biomedical data science (by courtesy), and statistics (by courtesy) at Stanford University. He co-directs the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS).

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Mark D. Jordan

Mark D. Jordan is the Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. His most recent books are Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in Foucault and Teaching Bodies: Moral Formation in the Summa of Thomas Aquinas.

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Farah Jasmine Griffin

Farah Jasmine Griffin teaches at Columbia. Her most recent book is Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II.

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Alyssa Battistoni

Alyssa Battistoni is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College. Her writing has also appeared in The Nation, Dissentn+1, and Jacobin. She is coauthor, with Kate Aronoff, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos, of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal. 

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Byron Williston

Byron Williston is Professor of Philosophy at Wilfrid Laurier University and a member of the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change at the University of Waterloo. His next book, Philosophy and the Climate Crisis: How the Past Can Save the Present, will be published in the fall of 2020 by Oxford University Press. He tweets @ClimatePhilo.

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Jean Lin

Jean Lin is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Cal State East Bay. She is a member of the Civic Life of Cities Lab (CLCL) at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS). Her CLCL team includes research assistants Susie Rhim (Cal State East Bay) and Tiffany Yang (Stanford University). She tweets at @JeanLinSoci.

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Aaron Horvath

Aaron Horvath is a PhD candidate in sociology at Stanford University and a fellow at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society where he is a member of the Civic Life of Cities Lab (CLCL). He tweets at @horvathianisms.

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Jeffrey Kucik

Jeffrey Kucik is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and the James E. Rogers College of Law (by courtesy) at the University of Arizona.

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Roberto Tallarita

Roberto Tallarita is Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

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Martin Gelin

Martin Gelin is a journalist and author based in New York. His work has appeared in the New Republic, Foreign Policy, BBC, and NPR.

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