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Thea Riofrancos

Thea Riofrancos is Associate Professor of Political Science at Providence College, a Strategic Co-Director of the Climate and Community Project, and a fellow at the Transnational Institute. She is author of Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador and coauthor of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal.

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Maurice Mitchell

Maurice Mitchell is National Director of the Working Families Party.

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Ted Fertik

Ted Fertik is Senior Strategist for Policy and Research at the Working Families Party. He holds a PhD in history from Yale University.

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Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould (1932–1982) was a celebrated Canadian classical pianist.

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Abdellah Taïa

Abdellah Taïa is the first Arab writer/filmmaker to publicly declare his homosexuality. He is the author of A Country for DyingAnother MoroccoSalvation ArmyAn Arab Melancholia, and Infidels. His novel Le jour du Roi won the French Prix de Flore in 2010. His first film, Salvation Army, was selected for the Venice Film Festival 2013, TIFF 2013, New Directors 2014, and won many international prizes.

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Noel Cheruto

Noel Cheruto's work has appeared in the Johannesburg Review of Books, Kikwetu Journal, On the Premises, and elsewhere. She recently won silver in the Short Story Day Africa contest. 

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Laura Grattan

Laura Grattan is the Jane Bishop '51 Associate Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. She is author of Populism’s Power: Radical Grassroots Democracy in America (Oxford University Press, 2016).

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Barbara Herman

Barbara Herman is the Griffin Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law at UCLA and author of Moral Literacy.

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Rachel Achs

Rachel Achs is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Harvard University.

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Myisha Cherry

Myisha Cherry is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at UC Riverside and author of UnMuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice.

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Victoria Spring

Victoria Spring is a PhD candidate in social psychology at Pennsylvania State University.

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Daryl Cameron

Daryl Cameron is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and ethics core faculty member in the Rock Ethics Institute.

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Desmond Jagmohan

Desmond Jagmohan is Assistant Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley.

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Theo Costantino

Theo Costantino is an Australian visual artist and writer.

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Scott W. Stern

Scott W. Stern is an attorney and the author of The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison “Promiscuous” Women.

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Daniel Grossman

Daniel Grossman, MD, is Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, and director of Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health. He is also an investigator with the Texas Policy Evaluation Project. He tweets @DrDGrossman.

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Daniel Wilf-Townsend

Daniel Wilf-Townsend is an attorney who specializes in constitutional litigation, consumer protection, and access to justice. His proposal for a national civil justice reform bill was recently published by the Great Democracy Initiative. He is currently of counsel to Gupta Wessler, PLLC, in Washington, DC.

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Kechi Nomu

Kechi Nomu is a poet and prose writer based in Lagos. Her writing has appeared recently in Ploughshares online, Electric Literature, Cosmonauts Avenue, and Fortunate Traveller. She is a 2017 finalist for the Brunel International African Poetry Prize and a 2019 semi-finalist for the Boston Review Aura Estrada Short Story Prize.

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Lucie Kalousova

Lucie Kalousova is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Riverside. She received her PhD in Sociology and Health Policy from the University of Michigan in 2017. Her research examines the relationship between health disparities and social and health policy, and how economic cycles impact population health.

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Sarah Burgard

Sarah Burgard is a professor of sociology and by courtesy, epidemiology and public policy at the University of Michigan, and the incoming director of Michigan's Population Studies Center. She studies the influences of employment quality, job loss, financial shocks, debt, housing instability, and material hardship on health outcomes and disparities in health. She tweets @SarahBurgard.

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Yasheng Huang

Yasheng Huang is Epoch Foundation Professor in Chinese economy and business and professor of global economics and management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. A member of the MIT Taskforce on the Work of the Future, he is currently conducting research on food safety in China and writing a book on a history of state capacity of China.

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Jeremy A. Greene

Jeremy A. Greene, MD, PhD, is William H. Welch Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine and Director of Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He practices medicine at East Baltimore Medical Center. His most recent book is Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine.

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Vafa Ghazavi

Vafa Ghazavi is a doctoral candidate and John Monash Scholar at Balliol College and Lecturer in Politics at Pembroke College, University of Oxford. He tweets @GhazaviVD.

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Yaron Regev

Yaron Regev is the author of two graphic novels, Ghosts of Love and Country and Descartes’ World, an upcoming YA fantasy series called The Door Behind the Sun, and several novels.

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