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Laren McClung

Laren McClung is author of Between Here and Monkey Mountain and coedited Inheriting the War: Poetry and Prose by Descendants of Vietnam Veterans and Refugees.

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Katharina Pistor

Katharina Pistor is the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School and Director of the Law School’s Center on Global Legal Transformation. Her research and teaching spans corporate law, corporate governance, money and finance, property rights, and comparative law and legal institutions. Her most recent book is The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality (Princeton University Press, 2019).

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William Lazonick

William Lazonick is professor of economics emeritus, University of Massachusetts, and president, The Academic-Industry Research Network. He is an Open Society Fellow and a CIFAR Fellow.

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Rodney Foxworth 

Nonprofit leader and social entrepreneur Rodney Foxworth is CEO of Common Future, formerly the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), a network fighting for equitable economic opportunities through entrepreneurship and local business ownership in marginalized communities.

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Roni Hirsch

Roni Hirsch is Assistant Professor of Government and Political Theory at the School of Political Sciences at Haifa University.

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Martin Lipton

Martin Lipton is a founding partner of the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz specializing in advising on mergers and acquisitions and matters affecting corporate policy and strategy.

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Paul S. Adler

Paul S. Adler is the Harold Quinton Chair of Business Policy and Professor of Management and Organization, Sociology, and Environmental Studies at the University of Southern California. He is the author of the forthcoming book, The 99 Percent Economy: How Democratic Socialism Can Overcome the Crises of Capitalism (Oxford University Press, available Oct 1, 2019).

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Julius Krein

Julius Krein is the editor of American Affairs.

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Jennifer Acker

Jennifer Acker is founder and editor in chief of The Common, and author of the debut novel The Limits of the World. Her short stories, essays, translations, and reviews have appeared in the Washington PostLiterary Hubn+1GuernicaThe Yale ReviewOff Assignment, and Ploughshares, among other places. Acker has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and teaches writing and editing at Amherst College, where she directs the Literary Publishing Internship and LitFest. She lives in western Massachusetts with her husband.

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Katrina Forrester

Katrina Forrester is Assistant Professor of Government and Social Studies at Harvard University and author of In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy. Her writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, and the London Review of Books.

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Adam Gaffney

Adam Gaffney is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a pulmonologist and critical care physician at the Cambridge Health Alliance, and past president of Physicians for a National Health Program. He is author of To Heal Humankind: The Right to Health in History.

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Khaled Mattawa

Khaled Mattawa is the author of five volumes of poetry, most recently Mare Nostrum. A MacArthur fellow, he teaches at the University of Michigan and edits Michigan Quarterly Review.

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Maha Marouan

Maha Marouan is a Moroccan writer and scholar at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Witches, Goddesses, and Angry Spirits: The Politics of Spiritual Liberation in African Diaspora Women’s Fiction and made the film Voices of Muslim Women from the US South.

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Manan Kapoor

Manan Kapoor is a writer based in New Delhi. His debut novel, The Lamentations of a Sombre Sky, was shortlisted for Sahitya Akademi's Yuva Award in 2017. His second book, a biography of Agha Shahid Ali, is forthcoming from Penguin Random House.

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David Ritz

David Ritz is a pioneer of the collaborative autobiography, helping to write celebrated memoirs by the likes of Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, and Marvin Gaye. He has also been nominated for a Grammy numerous times for his liner notes, and won the Grammy for Best Album Notes for his work on Aretha Franklin’s Queen of Soul.

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Pedro A. Regalado

Pedro A. Regalado is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. His research focuses on the intersections of race, immigration, and capitalism in twentieth-century cities.

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Salonee Bhaman

Salonee Bhaman is a PhD candidate in history at Yale University. Her research explores social welfare, immigration, and caregiving in the first decades of the AIDS epidemic.

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David Austin Walsh

David Austin Walsh is a historian and columnist at Boston Review. He is the author of Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right.

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Michael D. Gordin

Michael D. Gordin is Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University. His latest book is On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience.

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Oren Cass

Oren Cass is executive director of American Compass and author of The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America.

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Caleb Orr

Caleb Orr is Legislative Assistant for Economic Policy in the Office of Senator Marco Rubio.

 

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Tyree Daye

Tyree Daye is author of two poetry collections, River Hymns (2017 APR/Honickman First Book Prize winner) and Cardinal (forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2020). Daye was a 2017 Ruth Lilly Finalist and Cave Canem fellow. Daye’s work has been published in Prairie Schooner, the New York Times, and Nashville Review. Daye won the 2019 Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes Fellowship, is 2019 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-In-Residence at UC Santa Barbara, and is a 2019 Kate Tufts Finalist. Daye most recently was awarded a 2019 Whiting Writers Award.

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Emma Park

Emma Park is an Assistant Professor of History at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College, where she teaches courses on modern Africa, science and technology, global histories of capitalism, and the history of “development.”

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Kevin P. Donovan

Kevin P. Donovan is Senior Lecturer at the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh and author of Money, Value, and the State: Sovereignty and Citizenship in East Africa.

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