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Andrea Lawlor

Andrea Lawlor teaches writing at Mount Holyoke College and edits fiction for Fence. Their novel Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl was a finalist for the Lambda Literary and CLMP Firecracker Awards.

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Stuart Schrader

Stuart Schrader is Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, where he directs the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism. He is the author of Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves and Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed Policing.

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Mark Tseng-Putterman

Mark Tseng-Putterman is a PhD student in the Department of American Studies at Brown University. He is also a member of the Jews of Color and Mizrahi/Sephardi Caucus organizing in partnership with Jewish Voice for Peace. His writing on racial politics, activism, and anti-Semitism has appeared in The Atlantic, Truthout, and The Forward.

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Donna Nevel

Donna Nevel, a community psychologist, educator, and organizer, is co-director of PARCEO, a participatory research center. She taught Participatory Action Research for many years at NYU-Steinhardt. She is a founding member of Facing the Nakba Project and Jews Say No! and created, with Elly Bulkin, Jews Against Anti-Muslim Racism (JAAMR). She was also a co-founder, with Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark, of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ). She writes and lectures widely on Palestine and Israel,  Islamophobia, and organizing for justice.

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Carolyn Byrne

Carolyn Byrne is a writer from Long Island, New York. She studied English at Cornell University and earned her MFA from the University of Minnesota. Her work has received support from the MacDowell Colony, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, and the Libra Foundation. She is currently at work on her first novel.

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Maximillian Alvarez

Maximillian Alvarez is Editor-in-Chief of The Real News Network and the host of the podcast Working People.

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Abigail Rose

Abigail Rose received her MFA in fiction from Bowling Green State University. Her work has been previously nominated for a Pushcart Prize and been published in Bird’s Thumb Literary Magazine.

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Neshat Khan

Neshat Khan is a graduate of Boston University’s MFA program. She is the recipient of the Florence Engel Randall Graduate Award and a St. Botolph Club Emerging Artist Award. Her fiction is forthcoming in Indiana Review. She lives in New England.

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Nan Enstad

Nan Enstad is the Robinson Edwards Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and author of Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism.

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Eric Beinhocker is the Executive Director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford. 

W. Brian Arthur is External Professor at Santa Fe Institute.

Robert Axtell is Co-director of George Mason University's Computational Public Policy Lab.

Jenna Bednar is a political science professor at the University of Michigan.

Jean-Philippe Bouchaud is Chairman and Chief Scientist at Capital Fund Management and a physics professor at Ecole Polytechnique.

David Colander is an economics professor at Middlebury College.

Molly Crockett is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Yale University and lab director of Crockett Lab.

J. Doyne Farmer is Director of the Complexity Economics programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford.

Ricardo Haussman is Director of Harvard's Center for International Development.

Cars Hommes is an economics professor at the University of Amsterdam.

Alan Kirman is professor emeritus of Economics at the University of Aix-Marseille III.

Scott Page is the Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics at the University of Michigan.

David Sloan Wilson is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University.

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Arvind Subramanian

Arvind Subramanian is visiting lecturer at Harvard University and senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He is the former Chief Economic Adviser of the Government of India.

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Nikhil Pal Singh

Nikhil Pal Singh is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University and Faculty Diretor of the NYU Prison Education Program. His most recent book is Race and America’s Long War. 

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Ethan Bueno de Mesquita

Ethan Bueno de Mesquita is Interim Dean and Sydney Stein Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and author of Political Economy for Public Policy.

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Margaret E. Peters

Margaret E. Peters is Associate Professor of Political Science at UCLA and author of Trading Barriers: Immigration and the Remaking of Globalization (2017). She taught previously at Yale and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Alice Evans

Alice Evans is Senior Lecturer in the Social Science of Development at King’s College London.

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Suresh Naidu, Dani Rodrik, Gabriel Zucman

For more information on each author, please click on their name: Suresh Naidu, Dani RodrikGabriel Zucman.

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Gabriel Zucman

Gabriel Zucman is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is coauthor, with Emmanuel Saez, of The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay.

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Suresh Naidu

Suresh Naidu is Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics at Columbia.

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Thomas Baxter

Thomas Baxter is a high school principal in rural Ohio. He publishes this essay under a pseudonym. 

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Jae Won Chung

Jae Won Chung is Assistant Professor of Korean at the University of Colorado Boulder. Prior to earning his doctorate in Korean literature, he studied creative writing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and worked as a teacher and a literary translator in Seoul.

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Samuel Scheffler

Samuel Scheffler is University Professor and Professor of Philosophy and Law at NYU. His latest book is Why Worry About Future Generations.

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Adom Getachew

Adom Getachew is Professor of Political Science and Interim Chair of Race, Diaspora & Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination and a contributing editor at Boston Review.

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Bonnie Costello

Bonnie Costello is William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and Professor of English Emerita at Boston University. Her essays on travel, art, and memoir have appeared in The Yale ReviewThe Southern ReviewThe Gettysburg ReviewLiterary Imagination, War, Literature and the Arts, among other journals.

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Agnes Callard

Agnes Callard is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Philosophy at the University of Chicago and author of Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming.

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