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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a historian, writer, and professor emeritus in Ethnic Studies at California State University. Her latest book is Not “a Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion.

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Yochai Benkler

Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and faculty codirector of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.

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Pankaj Mishra

Pankaj Mishra is an Indian essayist and novelist. His latest book, Age of Anger (2017), was longlisted for the Orwell Prize.

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Jeremy Lybarger

Jeremy Lybarger is the features editor at the Poetry Foundation. He lives in Chicago.

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Benjamin H. Bradlow

Benjamin H. Bradlow is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Brown University. He researches the comparative sociology of cities, citizenship, and inequality, with a focus on Brazil and South Africa.

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Hugh Foley

Hugh Foley’s poems have appeared in Poetry London and The Rialto. He is currently a teaching associate at Queen Mary, University of London.

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M.K. Foster

M.K. Foster is a poet and Renaissance literature scholar from Birmingham, Alabama. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Columbia ReviewCrazyhorseGulf Coast, and Best New Poets 2017. For additional links and notes, visit www.marykatherinefoster.com.

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S. Ani Mukherji

S. Ani Mukherji is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He is currently working on his first book, The Anticolonial Imagination: Race, Empire, and Migrant Radicalism before World War II.

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Molly Smith

Molly Smith is a sex worker and activist with the Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement (SWARM). She is also involved with SCOT-PEP, a sex worker–led charity based in Edinburgh that is working to decriminalize sex work in Scotland. She has written articles on sex work for the Guardian and New Republic.

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Juno Mac

Juno Mac is a sex worker and activist with the Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement (SWARM), a sex worker–led collective with branches in London, Leeds, and Glasgow.

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Michael McCanne

Michael McCanne is a Brooklyn-based writer. His work has appeared in Art in AmericaThe New InquiryJewish Currents, and Jacobin.

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Daniel Bessner

Daniel Bessner is Associate Professor at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington and cohost of the podcast American Prestige.

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JoAnna Wool

JoAnna Wool’s short story “The Other Mia” appeared in the Summer 2018 issue of the Little Pawtuxent Review. She is a graduate of the Boston University creative writing program and is currently writing a novel. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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Jocelyn Simonson

Jocelyn Simonson is Associate Professor at Brooklyn Law School and author of Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People are Dismantling Incarceration.

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Hannah Pollin-Galay

Hannah Pollin-Galay is Senior Lecturer of Yiddish and Holocaust Studies in the Department of Literature at Tel Aviv University and author of Ecologies of Witnessing: Language, Place and Holocaust Testimony.

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Odeh Bisharat

Odeh Bisharat is an Arab-Israeli newspaper columnist and political activist. His first novel, The Streets of Zatunia (2007), was translated into Hebrew and Finnish; the Hebrew translation of his second novel, Donia, will be released in 2017.

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Troy Vettese

Troy Vettese is an environmental historian. He is coauthor, with Drew Pendergrass, of Half-Earth Socialism: A Manifesto to Save the Future. His writing has also appeared in n+1, Jacobin, New Left Review, and In These Times.

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Keith S. Wilson

Keith S. Wilson is an Affrilachian Poet, Cave Canem fellow, and graduate of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. He has received three scholarships from Bread Loaf as well as scholarships from MacDowell, UCross, Millay Colony, and the Vermont Studio Center, among others. Keith serves as the Kenyon Review Fellow in Poetry at Kenyon College, and as Assistant Poetry Editor at Four Way Review and Digital Media Editor at Obsidian Journal. Keith's first book, Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love, will be published by Copper Canyon in 2019.

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Jenny Grassl

Jenny Grassl was raised in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in various journals, including Radar Poetry, Clarion, LIT, Ocean State Review, and Rogue Agent.

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Helena Rosenblatt

Helena Rosenblatt is Professor of History at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. Her latest book is The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century.

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Kim Parko

Kim Parko is the author of Cure All (Caketrain Press, 2010) and The Grotesque Child (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2016), which was the co-winner of the Tarpaulin Sky Press 2015 book prize. She lives with her husband and daughter in Santa Fe and is an associate professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts.

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Andrew J. Douglas

Andrew J. Douglas is a professor of political science at Morehouse College. His latest book, with Jared Loggins, is Prophet of Discontent: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Critique of Racial Capitalism.

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Jack David Eller

Jack David Eller is a retired associate professor of anthropology at the Community College of Denver. He is the author of Cutural Anthropology: Global Forces Local LivesCulture and Diversity in the United States, and Cruel Creeds: Virtuous Violence: Religious Violence Across Culture and History.

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David Auerbach

David Auerbach is a writer and software engineer, author of Bitwise: A Life in Code. He previously worked for Google and Microsoft for ten years.

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