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Nicky Nodjoumi
Nicky Nodjoumi is an Iranian painter who has been living in exile in New York since 1981. His work is held in museum collections around the globe, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the British Museum in London.
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Liz Theoharis
Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), is Director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary and Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign. Her latest book is Cry Justice.
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Hannah Appel
Hannah Appel is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UCLA, where she also serves as the Associate Faculty Director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy. She is a founding member of the Debt Collective.
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David Landau
David Landau is Mason Ladd Professor and Associate Dean for International Programs at the Florida State University College of Law.
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Tom Ginsburg
Tom Ginsburg is Leo Spitz Professor of International Law and Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.
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K. Avvirin Gray
K. Avvirin Gray’s poem “Discuss.” was a semifinalist for the 2019 Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry and appears in the Fall 2019 issue of Beloit Poetry Journal. Her poetry has also appeared in Women’s Studies Quarterly. She is a fifth year doctoral candidate in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, and holds a Master of Arts in American Indian Studies from UCLA. Avvirin is a native New Yorker and adoptive Los Angelena.
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Christian List
Christian List is Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at the London School of Economics. His latest book, published in 2019, is Why Free Will is Real (Harvard University Press).
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David Waldstreicher
David Waldstreicher is Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His latest book is The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence.
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Sabrina Helen Li
Sabrina Helen Li has work published or forthcoming in the Threepenny Review, Tin House Online, the Black Warrior Review, and the Los Angeles Review. She studies English at Harvard College.
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Angela Y. Davis
Angela Y. Davis is Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. An activist, writer, and lecturer, her work focuses on prisons, police, abolition and the intersections of race, gender, and class.
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David Michaels
David Michaels, PhD, MPH, is an epidemiologist and professor at the George Washington University School of Public Health. He served as Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health from 2009 until January 2017, the longest serving administrator in OSHA's history. His latest book is The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception.
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Randal Maurice Jelks
Randal Maurice Jelks is Professor of American Studies and African and African American Studies at the University of Kansas. His most recent book is Faith and Struggle in the Lives of Four African Americans: Ethel Waters, Mary Lou Williams, Eldridge Cleaver, and Muhammad Ali.
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Reuben Jackson
Reuben Jackson was the long-time curator of the Smithsonian’s Duke Ellington Collection and is an educator and mentor for the Young Writers Project. He is also a founding member of the New Music-Theatre workshop and currently works for the organization as a librettist. His poems have been published in over forty anthologies and his first volume, fingering the keys, was picked for the Columbia Book Award. He is currently an archivist with the University of the District of Columbia’s Felix E. Grant Jazz Archives.
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Judith Butler
Judith Butler is Distinguished Professor at the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, and author, most recently, of Who’s Afraid of Gender?.
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Nell Painter
Nell Irvin Painter is Edwards Professor of American History Emerita at Princeton University. Her latest book is Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over.
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Jonathan M. Square
Jonathan M. Square teaches in the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature at Harvard University.
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Ben Jackson
Ben Jackson is Associate Professor of Modern History at Oxford University and Co-Editor of Political Quarterly.
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Ileana Nachescu
Ileana Nachescu is a writer and a scholar. Her essays have appeared in the Michigan Quarterly Review, the Rumpus, the Atticus Review, and elsewhere. She is currently at work on a full-length collection, Memoirs of a Socialist Childhood.
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Hochan Kim
Hochan "Sonny" Kim is a PhD student in Politics at Princeton University. His research interests lie primarily in contemporary political philosophy, social philosophy, and philosophy of law.
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Elena Di Rosa
Elena Di Rosa is a PhD student in Philosophy at Princeton University. She works primarily on topics in ethics, contemporary social and political philosophy, and moral psychology. Her current research project focuses on the ethics of pride and shame.
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Annette Zimmermann
Annette Zimmermann is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of York and Technology & Human Rights Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Robert Manduca
Robert Manduca is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan.
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Kemi Alabi
Kemi Alabi is the author of Against Heaven, selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the 2021 Academy of American Poets First Book Award. Their poems and essays appear in The Rumpus, Guernica, Catapult, Best New Poets 2019, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2 and elsewhere. A cultural strategist with Forward Together, Kemi builds narrative power with writers and artists for social justice. They live in Chicago.
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