(she/her) is a co-director and community organizer at Pangea Legal Services, where she supports the advocacy efforts of immigrants detained by ICE in the Central Valley area. Esperanza is an
(she/her) is co-director and communications lead at Pangea Legal Services. As the daughter of immigrants, Vanessa’s unwavering commitment to immigrant rights is deeply personal. Her work at Pangea sits at
(she/her) is a co-director and immigration attorney at Pangea Legal Services, where she helps coordinate rapid response work and leads Pangea’s work at the intersection of immigrant justice and Palestinian
(she/they) is a longtime immigrant justice advocate, movement lawyer, and the executive director of Bala Rising. As a co-founder of Pangea Legal Services, she helped lead efforts to shut down immigration
is an Afro-Boricua decolonial feminist, facilitator, organizer, educator, and scholar from Santurce. For 10 years, she has worked with various grassroots organizations from the archipelago of Puerto Rico. She is
is a freelance correspondent and documentary producer originally hailing from the Gold Coast, Australia, but presently splitting her time between Guatemala and Spain. Stephanie investigates and documents human rights, social
is an environment and climate journalist who writes for the Ledger-Enquirer in Columbus, Georgia, about the local ripples of the climate crisis, stories about who and what is solving it
has been facilitating political education and strategic alignment spaces for a just transition for three decades. She tends land and community with chosen family, which she is always working to
is the author of four novels focused on post-genocide Armenian diaspora experience. Her most recent book, The Burning Heart of the World, is about Armenians in Beirut during the Lebanese
(she/her) is a member of the Navajo Nation with African American ancestry, and works as an advancement officer at NDN Collective. Prior to joining NDN Collective, she worked as a
covers environmental and Indigenous issues for the Seattle Times. She is author of six books, including most recently Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home, winner of the 2021 National Outdoor Book
is an associate professor of philosophy, and affiliated faculty of law, at New York University. Before that, she was assistant professor of philosophy at Stanford University where she founded the
is professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine. They are the author of three books, Video Games Have Always Been Queer, The Queer Games Avant-Garde:
is an independent journalist based in New Delhi, India. She has been covering sociopolitical issues from gender perspective for nine years now. She started her career as a journalist with
Ph.D., teaches history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His most recent book is Abolishing Fossil Fuels: Lessons from Movements That Won (PM Press, 2024). His other books include Blood
is an award-winning author, activist, and media strategist dedicated to collective liberation, especially for Black trans folks. She is the co-founder of the Gender Liberation Movement. Raquel hosts two podcast
is a Xicano organizer, artist, poet, and comedian. He was raised working class in southern Arizona—a copper mining town impacted by environmental racism and militarization of the so-called border. He
is assistant professor of history at the University of North Texas and an enrolled citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. He is the author of More Desired than Our Own Salvation:
is associate professor of Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and author of the award-winning Counterstory: The Rhetoric and Writing of Critical Race Theory.
(she/her) is the Climate Justice Initiative Coordinator at NDN Collective. Born and raised on the island of O’ahu, she now lives in Kumeyaay territory in San Diego where she works
(he/him), is an ʻōiwi Hawaiʻi (Native Hawaiian) from Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi and the director of NDN Collective’s Climate Justice Initiative. Davis has spent nearly 15 years as an advocate for ʻāina
Ph.D., is an associate professor of critical disability studies in education in the Urban Education Department at Rutgers University-Newark. Her research examines the hyper-labeling of multiply-minoritized students and how constructs
grew up in the San Gabriel Valley and is currently based there covering health equity issues throughout Los Angeles County. He received his bachelor’s degree from Cal State L.A. and
is an associate professor of Arabic in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at
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