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Daniel Schlozman

Daniel Schlozman is Joseph and Bertha Bernstein Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. His latest book, coauthored with Sam Rosenfeld, is The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics.

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Josh Lerner

Josh Lerner is Co-Executive Director of People Powered, a global hub for participatory democracy. He was previously co-founder and Co-Executive Director of the Participatory Budgeting Project.

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Tabatha Abu El-Haj

Tabatha Abu El-Haj is Professor of Law at the Kline School of Law at Drexel University. She is a regular contributor to the Election Law Blog.

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Camonghne Felix

Camonghne Felix is the author of DYSCALCULIA and poetry collection Build Yourself a Boat, which was long-listed for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry. Her next full length work, Let the Poets Govern, is forthcoming from One World.

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Erik Baker

Erik Baker is Lecturer in History of Science at Harvard and an associate editor at The Drift. His writing has also appeared in The Nation, n+1, and elsewhere.

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Richard Pithouse

Richard Pithouse is an academic and journalist living in Johannesburg. His work has appeared in the Mail & Guardian, CounterPunch, and Foreign Policy.

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S’bu Zikode

S’bu Zikode is a founder of the Abahlali baseMjondolo movement.

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Daniel Dennett

Daniel Dennett (1942–2024) was an American philosopher. A former advisory editor at Boston Review, he published many books, including Consciousness Explained and Darwin’s Dangerous Idea.

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Catherine Tan

Catherine Tan is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Vassar College and author of Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge.

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Robert Chapman

Robert Chapman is Assistant Professor of Critical Neurodiversity Studies at Durham University and author of Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism.

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Hannah Proctor

Hannah Proctor is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde and the author of Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat.

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Paula Chakravartty

Paula Chakravartty is the James Weldon Johnson Associate Professor of Media Studies in Gallatin and the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU.

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Michelle Buckley

Michelle Buckley is Associate Professor in the Department of Human Geography at the University of Toronto.

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Spring Ulmer

Spring Ulmer is a poet and the author of Bestiality of the InvolvedThe Age of Virtual Reproduction, and Benjamin’s Spectacles. She teaches at Middlebury College.

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Eli Zeger

Eli Zeger is a writer living in Ridgewood, New York. His writing has also appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Noema, and the Baffler.

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Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje is the author of seven novels, a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. His novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize in 1992. Born in Sri Lanka, he now lives in Toronto.

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James Fujinami Moore

James Fujinami Moore is a writer in Los Angeles. His debut poetry collection is Indecent Hours. His work has also appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Guesthouse, Jet Fuel Review, the Margins, and Prelude.

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Shannon Price Minter

Shannon Price Minter is Legal Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights.

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Jennifer L. Levi

Jennifer L. Levi is Senior Director of Transgender and Queer Rights at GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) and Professor of Law at Western New England University.

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Vidyan Ravinthiran

The child of Sri Lankan Tamils, Vidyan Ravinthiran teaches at Harvard University. His books include Spontaneity and Form in Modern Prose, the poetry collection The Million-Petalled Flower of Being Here, and the forthcoming Asian/Other, a fusion of memoir and poetry analysis.

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David Cortright

David Cortright is a Vietnam-era veteran, peace activist, and professor emeritus at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. His many books include Soldiers in Revolt: GI Resistance During the Vietnam War.

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Fady Joudah

Fady Joudah is a poet, physician, and translator. His latest book is […].

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Jared Abbott

Jared Abbott is Director of the Center for Working-Class Politics and Assistant Professor of Political Science at California State University, Los Angeles.

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Thomas K. Ogorzalek

Thomas K. Ogorzalek is co-founder of the 2040 Strategy Group, co-director of the Chicago Democracy Project, and author of The Cities on the Hill: How Urban Institutions Transformed National Politics.

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