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Carly Joy Miller
Carly Joy Miller is the author of the forthcoming Ceremonial, selected by Carl Phillips as the winner of the 2017 Orison Prize for Poetry, and the forthcoming chapbook Like a Beast, winner of the 2016 Rick Campbell Prize. Her work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, Blackbird, Gulf Coast, West Branch and elsewhere. She is a contributing editor for Poetry International and a founding editor of Locked Horn Press.
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Christopher J. Phillips
Christopher J. Phillips is a historian of science and of twentieth-century America. He is an Assistant Professor in Carnegie Mellon's History Department.
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Melinda Cooper
Melinda Cooper is Professor in the School of Sociology at Australian National University. Her latest book is Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance.
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Richard V. Reeves
Richard V. Reeves is a senior fellow in Economic Studies, co-director of the Center on Children and Families, and editor-in-chief of the Social Mobility Memos blog. His book Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It will be published n June 2017.
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Jeremy Adelman
Jeremy Adelman is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History and Director of the Global History Lab at Princeton University. His most recent book is Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman (2013). Currently, he is working on two books, Latin America: A Global History, forthcoming from Princeton University Press, and Earth Hunger.
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William Waddell
William Waddell is Professor of English at St. John Fisher College and a board member of BOA Editions, both in Rochester, NY. He edited the essay collection "Catch If You Can Your Country's Moment": Recovery and Regeneration in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich.
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Neil Gordon
Neil Gordon (1958–2017) was the former literary editor of Boston Review and the author of four novels, including Sacrifice of Isaac.
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Andrea Dehlendorf
Andrea Dehlendorf is Executive Director of United for Respect. She has twenty-five years of experience organizing with people working in low-wage retail and service sector jobs. Find her on Twitter @ADehlendorf.
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Dan Schlademan
Dan Schlademan and Andrea Dehlendorf are the Co-Directors of the Organization United for Respect (OUR) and both have decades of experience in organizing and developing new models of organization. OUR is an organization that focuses on improving working conditions in the retail sector. The organization was previously formed and known as OUR Walmart. OUR Walmart is now a project of OUR.
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Bob Master
Bob Master worked for the Communications Workers of America for 36 years, where he served as Assistant to the District One Vice President. He also served as a founding co-chair of the New York State Working Families Party. He is currently an adjunct professor at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies.
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Staughton Lynd
Staughton Lynd is a labor organizer, peace activist, civil rights activist, tax resister, historian, author, and lawyer.
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Stephen Lerner
Stephen Lerner is a fellow at Georgetown Universities Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor and was the architect of the Justice for Janitors campaign.
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Sophia Lee
Sophia Lee is Professor of Law and History and Deputy Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
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Alicia Garza
Alicia Garza is one of the founders of Black Lives Matter and works with the National Domestic Workers Alliance.
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Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Fletcher is the former president of TransAfrica Forum; a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies; an editorial board member of BlackCommentator.com; and in the leadership of several other projects. Fletcher is the co-author (with Peter Agard) of The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1934–1941; the co-author (with Dr. Fernando Gapasin) of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice; and the author of ‘They’re Bankrupting Us’ – And Twenty Other Myths About Unions. Fletcher is a syndicated columnist and a regular media commentator on television, radio, and the Web.
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Peter Kellman
Peter Kellman is past president of the Southern Maine Labor Council and is currently working with the Movement Building/Education Committee of the Maine AFL-CIO. His books on labor history include Building Unions: Past, Present and Future, Pain on Their Faces, and Divided We Fall: The Story of the Paperworkers’ Union and the Future of Labor.
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Ed Bruno
Ed Bruno is the former director of the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America, and past southern director for the National Nurses Union.
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James Gray Pope
James Gray Pope Professor of Law and Sidney Reitman Scholar at Rutgers University. Before joining Rutgers in 1986, he worked in a shipyard and represented labor unions at the Boston law firm of Segal, Roitman & Coleman.
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David Stein
David Stein is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute’s Macroeconomic Analysis Program. His first book, Fearing Inflation, Inflating Fears: The Civil Rights Struggle for Full Employment and the Rise of the Carceral State, 1929–1986, is forthcoming from University of North Carolina Press.
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David McDermott Hughes
David McDermott Hughes is Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers. His most recent book is Who Owns the Wind?. He serves as the climate justice chair of the Rutgers AAUP-AFT faculty and grad union.
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Stephen Kantrowitz
Stephen Kantrowitz is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History, African American Studies, and American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889 and Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy.
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Rodrigo Toscano
Rodrigo Toscano’s newest book of poetry is Explosion Rocks Springfield (Fence Books, 2016) Previous books include Deck of Deeds, Collapsible Poetics Theater (a National Poetry Series selection), To Leveling Swerve, Platform, Partisans, and The Disparities. He works for the Labor Institute in conjunction with the United Steelworkers, the National Institute for Environmental Health Science, Communication Workers of America, and National Day Laborers Organizing Network, working on educational / training projects that involve environmental and labor justice, health & safety culture transformation, and immigrant worker rights.
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