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Roy Bahat

Roy Bahat is the head of Bloomberg Beta, a venture capital firm, and the co-chair of the Shift Commission on Work, Workers, and Technology.

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Connie Razza

Connie Razza is director of Strategic Research at the Center for Popular Democracy.

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Juliana Bidadanure

Juliana Bidadanure is Assistant Professor in Political Philosophy at Stanford and is on the advisory board of Stanford's McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society.

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Peter Barnes

Peter Barnes is a cofounder of Credo Mobile, an advisor to the Roosevelt Institute, and author of With Liberty and Dividends for All.

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Annette Bernhardt

Annette Bernhardt is director of the Project on Low-Wage Work at the UC Berkeley Labor Center and co-editor of The Gloves-Off Economy.

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Patrick Diamond

Patrick Diamond is a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford, and lextures at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of Endgame for the Centre-Left: The Retreat of European Social Democracy.

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Courtney Faye Taylor

Courtney Faye Taylor is an MFA candidate at the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers’ Program. She is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her work appears in Witness and elsewhere.

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Erika Luckert

Erika Luckert is a writer from Edmonton, Canada. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Columbia and was a nominee for the Canadian National Magazine Award in Poetry. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, Measure, CALYX, Room Magazine, Asymptote and others. She lives in New York City, where she teaches creative and critical writing.

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James Henry Knippen

James Henry Knippen’s poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast, 32 Poems, Colorado Review, The Missouri Review Online, Denver Quarterly, Blackbird and West Branch, among other journals. He is the poetry editor of Newfound

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Stephen Danos

Stephen Danos is author of the chapbooks Missing Slides (Horse Less Press, 2016), DO NOT WANT (alice blue books, 2015) and Playhouse State (H_NGM_N Books, 2012). His poems and writing have appeared in American Letters & CommentaryCity ArtsColumbia Poetry ReviewFanzinePleiadesSixth Finch, and elsewhere. He is Editor-in-Chief of Pinwheel and lives in Seattle.   

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Carolyn Guinzio

Carolyn Guinzio's fourth collection is SPINE (Parlor Press, 2016). Her third book, SPOKE & DARK, was selected by Alice Quinn for the To The Lighthouse/A Room Of Her Own Prize (Red Hen, 2012). Her website is carolynguinzio.tumblr.com

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Eric Greenwell

Eric Greenwell grew up on the Mississippi River. Recipient of Writing in the Wild and Centrum Writers’ Conference fellowships, he is the 2016 PEN/Magery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Willow Springs, Kahini, Terrain.org, Lake Effect, and Adirondack Review among other magazines and journals.

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Lauren Shapiro

Lauren Shapiro’s first collection of poetry, Easy Math, won the 2011 Kathryn A. Morton Prize, judged by Marie Howe, and was published in 2013 by Sarabande Books. She is also the author of a chapbook, Yo-Yo Logic, published by DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press (2012) and was co-editor of The New Census: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (Rescue Press, 2013). She is an assistant professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Michael Bazzett

Michael Bazzett’s work has appeared in Ploughshares, The Sun, American Poetry Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Iowa Review, among others. He is the author of three poetry collections – You Must Remember This, (winner of the Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry), Our Lands Are Not So Different (Horsethief Books), and The Interrogation, (forthcoming from Milkweed Editions) – as well as a verse translation of the Mayan creation epic, The Popol Vuh (Milkweed). He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and two children. 

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Allison Adair

Allison Adair’s poems appear or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Greensboro Review, Mid-American Review, Missouri Review (Poem of the Week), Ninth Letter, and Southeast Review, among other journals. Winner of the Orlando Prize and the Fineline Competition, Adair teaches at Boston College and Grub Street.

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Josh Bettinger

Josh Bettinger is a poet and editor whose work has appeared in, or is forthcoming from, journals in the United States, England, and Canada including Oxford PoetrySalt Hill JournalWestern Humanities ReviewHandsome Poetry, and The Los Angeles Review. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and two children. 

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Anke Hassel

Anke Hassel is Professor of Public Policy at the Hertie School of Governance and Academic Director of the Hans Böckler Foundation’s Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI).

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The Undercommons

The Undercommons is a freedom school in Los Angeles that was started at UCLA.  It works to provide oppressed peoples' social movements with the resources housed at universities. For more information, visit the group's website.

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Cynthia Estlund

Cynthia Estlund is Catherine A. Rein Professor at NYU School of Law. Her most recent book is A New Deal for China’s Workers?.

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Kerry Carnahan

Kerry Carnahan is from Kansas. An urban environmentalist, former Fulbright Scholar, and MacDowell fellow in 2014, her poetry has appeared in Poetry Ireland, The Missouri Review, and most recently in translation in the Greek literary magazine Teflon. Currently she pursues doctoral studies at the University of Connecticut where she is preparing a new translation of the Song of Songs with commentary. 

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Francisco Urondo

Francisco “Paco” Urondo was an Argentine writer, journalist, and revolutionary who was killed in the early stages of the Dirty War in 1976 at the age of 46. In his short lifetime he wrote 18 works of poetry, short stories, testimonial writing, and essays, along with plays and scripts for the screen. He held a position as Minister of Culture in Santa Fe and became director of the department of literature at the University of Buenos Aires after being imprisoned for his leftist militancy and released in 1973. Urondo was an active member of the Montoneros guerrilleros and then FAR (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias), until he was targeted and assassinated by the Argentine state within three months of the ‘76 military coup.

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Julia Leverone

Julia Leverone teaches Spanish and creative writing at UT Dallas. She holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Wash U in St. Louis and an M.F.A. from the University of Maryland. Her book of translations of selected poems by Urondo, Fuel and Fire, is forthcoming from Diálogos Press. Sets of translations have appeared or are forthcoming from venues including The Massachusetts Review, the Brooklyn Rail’s InTranslation, Witness, Circumference, and Gulf Coast. Julia’s second chapbook of poems won the 2016 Claudia Emerson Poetry Chapbook Award and is forthcoming from JMWW. She is the editor of Sakura Review.

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Michael Faye

Michael Faye is the co-founder of GiveDirectly and Segovia Technology. His work on international development has been published in the American Economic Review, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Foreign Affairs, and elsewhere. He is also a term member of the Council of Foreign Relations. He received a PhD in economics from Harvard, as well as a BA in Math and Classics.

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Paul Niehaus

Paul Niehaus works to enable the transfer of resources to the extreme poor. He is a co-founder of GiveDirectly, co-founder of Segovia Technology, and an associate professor of economics at UC San Diego. Paul is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Junior Affiliate at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), an Affiliate of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), and an Affiliate at the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA). He holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University and is a National Science Foundation Fellow and a Sloan Fellow.

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