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Nicholas Rush Smith

Nicholas Rush Smith is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York – City College and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology, University of Johannesburg. He is the author of Contradictions of Democracy: Vigilantism and Rights in Post-Apartheid South Africa.

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Bianca Wylie

Bianca Wylie is an open government advocate with a dual background in technology and public engagement. She is cofounder of Digital Public, cofounder of Tech Reset Canada, and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation.

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Marc Lipsitch

Marc Lipsitch is Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics.

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Shauna L. Shames

Shauna L. Shames is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Gender Studies at Rutgers University-Camden. She is author of Out of the Running: Why Millennials Reject Political Careers and Why it Matters, coauthor of Survive & Resist: The Definitive Guide to Dystopian Politics, and coeditor of The Right Women: Republican Activists, Candidates, and Legislators and Good Reasons to Run: Women & Political Candidacy.

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Jennifer M. Piscopo

Jennifer M. Piscopo is Associate Professor of Politics at Occidental College. With Susan Franceschet and Mona Lena Krook, she is editor of The Impact of Gender Quotas. She coedits the Western Political Science Association’s journal, Politics, Groups, and Identities. Her popular writing on women in politics has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and Ms. Magazine.

 

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Adele Lebano

Adele Lebano is a political philosopher who has lived and worked in Italy, Holland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Since 2016 she has lived in Sweden and is a visiting researcher at Uppsala University. She has written about young people’s life and work choices, migration and population change, democracy, liberalism, and populism.

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Adam Kotsko

Adam Kotsko is the author, most recently, of Neoliberalism's Demons: On the Political Theology of Late Capital. He teaches in the Shimer Great Books Program at North Central College.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and a columnist at Boston Review. His books include Elite Capture and Reconsidering Reparations.

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Jonathan Fuller

Jonathan Fuller, MD, PhD, is Assistant Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Genevieve Fried

Genevieve Fried is a Technology Fellow at the AI Now Institute at NYU. She has a bachelor's degree from McGill University where she studied Artificial Intelligence and Political Science. 

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Meredith Whittaker

Meredith Whittaker is the Co-founder and Co-director of the AI Now Institute at NYU, where she's also a Research Professor. Her work focuses on the social implications of artificial intelligence and the tech industry responsible for it. As a long-time tech worker, she helped lead labor organizing efforts at Google, driven by the belief that worker power and collective action are necessary to ensure meaningful tech accountability.

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Erin McElroy

Erin McElroy is a postdoctoral researcher at NYU’s AI Now Institute, and is cofounder of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and the Radical Housing Journal. Erin received a PhD in Feminist Studies from the University of California, Sant Cruz, and focuses on entanglements of property, race, technology, and housing justice.

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James Owen Weatherall

James Owen Weatherall is Chancellor’s Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine and coauthor, with Cailin O’Connor, of The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread.

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Cailin O’Connor

Cailin O’Connor is Chancellor’s Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine and coauthor, with James Owen Weatherall, of The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread.

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Jamala Rogers

Jamala Rogers is a black feminist, community organizer, and author of Ferguson is America: Roots of Rebellion.

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Colin Gordon

Colin Gordon teaches history at the University of Iowa, and is the author of Citizen Brown: Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs and Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City.

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Jason Q. Purnell

Jason Q. Purnell is an Associate Professor and Director of Health Equity Works in the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Michael Franczak

Michael Franczak is Senior Researcher in Multilateralism and Global Governance at the United Nations University’s Centre for Policy Research.

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Michael Brenes

Michael Brenes teaches history at Yale. His next book, coauthored with Van Jackson, is The Rivalry Peril: How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy.

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Manoj Dias-Abey

Manoj Dias-Abey is a socio-legal researcher at the University of Bristol School of Law. He was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace at Queen’s University (Canada), and earned his Ph.D. in Law from Queen’s University in 2016. 

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Andy Battle

Andy Battle is a historian, editor, and teacher living in New York City.

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R. H. Lossin

R.H. Lossin is a PhD candidate in communications at Columbia University. She has written for the New Left Review, The Nation, Jacobin, Jstor Daily, Salvage, and The Brooklyn Rail.

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Christopher J. Lee

Christopher J. Lee is Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. He has published five books, including Unreasonable Histories (Duke 2014) and Jet Lag (Bloomsbury 2017), and is completing a book on Kwame Anthony Appiah.

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Erin R. Pineda

Eric R. Pineda is Assistant Professor of Government at Smith College.

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