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Cathy O’Neil

Cathy O’Neil is a data scientist and author of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy.

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Bernardo Zacka

Bernardo Zacka is a research fellow at the Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford and a junior research fellow at Christ’s College, Cambridge. Starting in fall 2018, he will be assistant professor of political science at MIT.

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Raquel Salas Rivera

Raquel Salas Rivera es una poeta puertorriqueña que vive en Filadelfia. Actualmente, es co-editora y traductora para The Wanderer. Si para Roque Dalton no existe revolución sin poesía, para Raquel no existe poesía sin Puerto Rico. Puedes aprender más sobre su trabajo si visitas www.raquelsalasrivera.com.

Raquel Salas Rivera is a Puerto Rican poet that lives in Philadelphia. Currently, they are a Co-Editor and Translator at The Wanderer. If for Roque Dalton there is no revolution without poetry, for Raquel there is no poetry without Puerto Rico. You can find out more about their work at www.raquelsalasrivera.com.

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Justin Sider

Justin Sider's poetry and reviews have appeared in Southwest Review32 PoemsBat City ReviewIndiana ReviewColorado ReviewMAKE, and other journals. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

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Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Khalil Gibran Muhammad is Professor of African American Studies and Public Affairs at Princeton University, where he directs the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project.

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Julian C. Chambliss

Julian C. Chambliss is Professor of History at Rollins College, where he serves as coordinator of the Africa and African-American Studies Program as well as the Media, Arts, and Culture Special Interest Section for the Florida Conference of Historians.

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Sam Ross

Sam Ross is the author of Company, selected by Carl Phillips for the 2017 Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry and forthcoming in 2019.

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Jason Baltazar

Jason Baltazar is a graduate student at the University of Kansas. He is currently working on his first novel and a collection of short fiction.

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Roderick MacFarquhar

Roderick MacFarquhar is the Leroy B. Williams Research Professor of History and Political Science and former Director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University. His publications include The Hundred Flowers Campaign and the Chinese IntellectualsThe Sino-Soviet DisputeChina under MaoSino-American Relations, 1949–1971The Secret Speeches of Chairman MaoThe Origins of the Cultural Revolution; and the jointly-authored Mao’s Last Revolution. Founding editor of The China Quarterly, he has also been a fellow at Columbia University, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Royal Institute for International Affairs, as well as a journalist, TV commentator, and Member of Parliament.

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Benjamin Garcia

Benjamin Garcia is a Community Health Specialist who provides HIV/HCV/STD and opioid overdose prevention education to higher risk communities throughout New York’s Finger Lakes region. He is a CantoMundo Fellow and a graduate of Cornell University’s MFA program. He was named the 2017 Latin@ Scholar at the Frost Place. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Kenyon Review Online, Best New Poets 2016, As/Us, Gulf Coast, West Branch Wired, The Collagist, and PANK.

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Amy Woolard

Amy Woolard is a writer and legal aid attorney working on justice system reform, school-to-prison pipeline, safety net, health, and poverty policy issues in Virginia. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the University of Virginia School of Law. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, Fence, Guernica, and Gulf Coast, among  others. Her essays have appeared in Slate, The Guardian, Pacific Standard, and The Rumpus, as well as Virginia Quarterly Review, which awarded her the Staige D. Blackford Prize for Nonfiction in 2016.

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Mia Kang

Mia Kang is an Oregon-born, Texas-raised writer, currently a first-year PhD student in the history of art at Yale University. A Brooklyn Poets Fellow and runner-up for the 2017 Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest, she is a recipient of the Academy of American Poets’ 2016 Catalina Páez and Seumas MacManus Award, among others.

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Ashley Dawson

Ashley Dawson is a professor of English at the City University of New York, and the author of Extinction: A Radical History.

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Cait Weiss Orcutt

Cait Weiss Orcutt’s work has been published in Chautauqua, FIELD, Prelude, and elsewhere. A PhD candidate in Poetry, Orcutt teaches creative writing for Writers in the Schools, University of Houston and Inprint in Texas. Her book VALLEYSPEAK won the 2016 Zone 3 First Book Prize judged by Douglas Kearney and will be out this November.

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Lauren Jacobs

Lauren Jacobs is the Executive Director of Partnership for Working Families. She has been an organizer and campaigner for 23 years.

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Jacob T. Levy

Jacob T. Levy is Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Professor of Political Science, and associated faculty in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University. He is the author of Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom.

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Michael Hardt

Michael Hardt is Professor of Literature at Duke University and author, with Antonio Negri, of Assembly.

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Lee Dyer

Lee Dyer is Emeritus Professor of Human Resource Studies and Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He is the co-author of Shaping the Future of Work: A Handbook for Action and a New Social Contract.

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Montreux Rotholtz

Montreux Rotholtz is the author of Unmark, selected by Mary Szybist as the winner of the 2015 Burnside Review Press Book Award. Her poems appear in Fence, jubilat, Lana Turner, PEN Poetry SeriesPrelude and elsewhere. She lives in Seattle.

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Gregory Scott Katsoulis

Gregory Scott Katsoulis is a writer, photographer, composer, and lapsed cartoonist. His first book, All Rights Reserved, is a dystopian young adult novel.

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Jonathan Beecher Field

Jonathan Beecher Field is an associate professor of English at Clemson University, and the author of Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation.

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Luke Kennard

Luke Kennard is a British poet and novelist. He was shortlisted for the Forward Prize in 2007 and lectures at the University of Birmingham.

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Zachary Pace

Zachary Pace is a writer and editor in New York City whose work has appeared in Bookforum, the Los Angeles Review of BooksL MagazineThe Awl, and elsewhere.

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John Tinnell

John Tinnell is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Denver. His new book is Actionable Media: Digital Communication Beyond the Desktop.

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