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Alissa Quart

is the author of seven books, including Bootstrapped and Squeezed. She’s the executive director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and has written for many publications including The Washington Post

Amanda Gokee

is an Ojibwe journalist reporting on New Hampshire for The Boston Globe.

Jenn M. Jackson

is a queer androgynous Black woman, abolitionist, lover of all Black people, and assistant professor at Syracuse University’s Department of Political Science. Their books include Black Women Taught Us (Penguin

Frankie de la Cretaz

is the co-author of Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women’s Football League. Their work at the intersections of sports and gender has been featured in The

Nneka M. Okona

is an Atlanta-based entrepreneur and author. The former journalist is now focused on building Those Who Soar, a travel media company for Black women, and writing books exploring her interests

Deanna Van Buren

is an activist, architect, artist, and co-founder and executive director of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces.

Amanda Alexander

is a racial justice lawyer, historian, and founding executive director of the Detroit Justice Center.

Edgar Mendez

is a Milwaukee-based reporter. His writing has been published by the Associated Press, Reuters, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and other media.

Zoe Dutton

is an independent writer covering environmental resilience.

Rashad Shabazz

is an associate professor at the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. His academic expertise brings together human geography, Black cultural studies, gender studies, and critical prison studies.

Beautiful Trouble

is an international network of artist-activist-trainers helping grassroots movements and the organizations that support them become more creative and more powerful. We are also a book, a strategy card game,

David Lester

illustrated the award-winning “1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike.” His poster of anti-war protester Malachi Ritscher was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is

Marcus Rediker

is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of many “histories from below,” including “Villains of All Nations,” on which this book is

Curtis White

is a novelist and social critic whose latest book is Transcendent: Art and Dharma in a Time of Collapse (Melville House, 2023). His other works include Memories of My Father

Jonathan Feingold

is the Associate Professor of Law at Boston University. Feingold’s scholarship explores the relationship between race, law, and the mind sciences. Much of his recent research has interrogated how and

Hajar Yazdiha

is an assistant professor of sociology at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

Shira Hassan

is the founder of Just Practice, a capacity building project for organizations and community members, activists and leaders working at the intersection of transformative justice, harm reduction and collective liberation.

Julia Peter

is co-Director of Advocacy and Mobilization at the Center for Popular Democracy. She’s held various organizing and campaign roles over the past 15 years, including helping to organize the Kavanaugh

Intisar Abioto

(b. Memphis, TN. 1986) is an explorer-artist working across photography, dance, and writing. Moving from the visionary and embodied root of Blackgirl Southern cross-temporal cross-modal storytelling ways, her works refer

Bruce Poinsette

is a writer, educator, and community organizer whose work is primarily based in the Portland Metro Area. He hosts “The Bruce Poinsette Show” on 96.7 The Numberz FM and the

Sarah Sloat

is a writer and editor based in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, Wired, The New Republic, DAME, Digital Trends, MIT Technology Review,

Sarah A. Font

is an associate professor of Sociology and Public Policy at Penn State.

Toria Herd

is a postdoctoral researcher in Psychology at Penn State.

Deepa Iyer

leads projects on solidarity and social movements at the Building Movement Project, a national nonprofit organization that catalyzes social change through research, relationships, and resources. Previously, she served as executive
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