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Sagit Emet

Sagit Emet is an Israeli author, playwright, and writing workshop facilitator, and is winner of the Zeev Prize and the Leah Goldberg Prize for children’s literature for her novel Gaia’s Dawn (Keter, 1999). Emet is also the author of the adult novel Days to See (Yediot Books), winner of the Golden Book award for 2017.

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Leandro Ferreira

Leandro Ferreira is head of the Brazilian Basic Income Network.

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Paul R. Katz

Paul R. Katz coordinates the Jain Family Institute’s work in Brazil. In addition to his work at JFI, Katz is a Ph.D. candidate in Latin American history at Columbia University, where he focuses on state violence, human rights, and the transnational left. Katz has completed a Fulbright-Hays-supported residence at São Paulo’s State University of Campinas, as well as interdisciplinary degrees in history and literature at Harvard and in the social sciences at Argentina’s National University of Luján.

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John Stoltenberg

John Stoltenberg is a long-time activist against sexual violence. His books include Refusing to Be a Man: Essays on Sex and Justice. With trans feminist Cristan Williams he contributes regularly to The Conversations Project about radically inclusive radical feminism.

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Shaun Ossei-Owusu

Shaun Ossei-Owusu is Presidential Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania. His public writing has also appeared in the American Prospect, Salon, and Jacobin.

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Eleni Schirmer

Eleni Schirmer is a writer, scholar, and activist who holds a PhD in Educational Policy Studies from University of Wisconsin, Madison. 

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Etan Nechin

Etan Nechin is online editor of The Bare Life Review: A Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Literature. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Zyzzyva, World Literature Today, Jewish Currents, Ha’aretz, among other venues.

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Amy Hoffman

Amy Hoffman is the author of several award-winning memoirs and, most recently, the novel The Off Season. She teaches creative writing at Emerson College.

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Mike McClelland

Mike McClelland is the author of the short fiction collection Gay Zoo Day.

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Mark Engler

Mark Engler is a writer based in Philadelphia and an editorial board member at Dissent magazine. He is the coauthor of This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century.

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Alejandro Varela

Alejandro Varela (he/him) is a writer based in New York. His work has appeared in several journals and magazines, including Harper's, the Rumpus, and the Offing. He's a 2019 Jerome Fellow in Literature. He was a resident in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s 2017–2018 Workspace program and a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow. He's also an associate editor at Apogee Journal. You can follow him on Twitter at @drovarela or find his work at alejandrovarela.org.

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Maria Dahvana Headley

Maria Dahvana Headley is the New York Times–bestselling author of seven books including The Mere Wife, a contemporary adaptation of Beowulf, named by the Washington Post as one of its Notable Works of Fiction in 2018. Her new translation of Beowulf is due from FSG in August 2020. Headley’s short fiction has been nominated for the Nebula, Shirley Jackson, Tiptree, and World Fantasy Awards and has been anthologized in many year’s bests; a collection will appear from FSG in the near future. Her essays on politics, propaganda, and mythology have been published in the New York Times, Daily Beast, Harvard’s Nieman Storyboard, and elsewhere.  Her work has been supported by The MacDowell Colony, Arte Studio Ginestrelle, and the Sundance Institute’s Theatre Lab, among other organizations. She grew up in the high desert of Idaho on a survivalist sled dog ranch, where she spent summers plucking the winter coat from her father’s wolf.

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Arindrajit Dube

Arindrajit Dube is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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Sumudu Samarawickrama

Sumudu Samarawickrama is from Werribee. Her work has appeared in Boston ReviewTLB, Meanjin, and Overland. Her first chapbook, Utter the Thing: deciBels 3, is published by Vagabond Press. Sumudu is part of FCAC’s West Writer's Group, and is writing a short story collection about the fable of Woman. She’s on twitter @olaf78.

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Jack Gain

Jack Gain is a library worker from the north of England, now living in London. He teaches adult education classes in history at the City Literary Institute. His story, “Communism Doesn’t Work,” was a finalist for the Aura Estrada Short Story Contest and is his first piece of published fiction.

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Maureen F. McHugh

Maureen McHugh has written four novels and two collections of short fiction. She won the James Tiptree Award for her first novel, China Mountain Zhang. She was a Finalist for the Story Award for Mothers & Other Monsters, and won a Shirley Jackson Award for her collection After the Apocalypse.

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Karl Smith

Karl Smith is Vice President of Federal Tax and Economic Policy at the Tax Foundation, where he leads the federal team in working with federal officials to improve the national tax code.

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Bryce Covert

Bryce Covert is an independent journalist who writes about the economy. She is a Reporter in Residence at the Omidyar Network and a contributing writer at The Nation. Her writing has appeared in Time, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, The New Republic, and Slate.

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Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman

For more information on the authors, please click on their name: Emmanuel SaezGabriel Zucman.

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Gregg Gonsalves

Gregg Gonsalves is Assistant Professor in Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at Yale School of Public Health and co-directs Yale’s Global Health Justice Partnership and its Collaboration for Research Integrity and Transparency. He has worked with the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, the Treatment Action Group, Gay Men’s Health Crisis, and the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa.

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David Herd

David Herd’s collections of poetry include All Just (Carcanet, 2012) and Outwith (Bookthug, 2012), and his recent writings on the politics of human movement have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement Los Angeles Review of Books, Parallax and Almost Island. He is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Kent and a co-organiser of Refugee Tales.

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John Perry

John Perry is Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Stanford University.

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Lynne Feeley

Lynne Feeley is a writer and teacher based in Seattle. Her work has appeared in The NationEnvironmental HistoryAmerican Literature, and Avidly. She has a doctorate in English from Duke and formerly taught in the History & Literature Program at Harvard.

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Malick W. Ghachem

Malick W. Ghachem, Associate Professor of History at MIT, is a historian and lawyer. He is author of The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution.

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