Elena Novak
is a nonbinary organizer and writer from Florida. Their articles have been published on the Huffpost blog, Everyday Feminism, and in newspapers in Florida and North Carolina. After furthering their
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David Mura
is a poet, writer of creative nonfiction and fiction, critic, and playwright. He is the author of A Stranger’s Journey: Race, Identity, and Narrative Craft in Writing and the memoirs
Keith Henry Brown
got his start drawing superheroes, but music has always been his inspiration. Brown has illustrated album covers for many great jazz artists, including Wynton Marsalis and Christian McBride; he illustrated
Treva B. Lindsey
is a professor at The Ohio State University and founder of the Transformative Black Feminisms Initiative at OSU. Her most recent book is America Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the
Sari Botton
is the author of And You May Find Yourself … Confessions of a Late-Blooming Gen-X Weirdo. She publishes Oldster Magazine.
Jonathan P. Higgins
is a writer, educator, and thought leader who focuses on the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, and media.
Sara Harrison
is a freelance journalist who writes about science, health, and technology. Her work has appeared in outlets including New York Magazine, WIRED, Scientific American,and The Best American Science and Nature
Christopher Reardon
is a disabled writer from Boston. He has written for The Guardian, The Verge, Gizmodo, and several disability literary journals. He holds a master’s degree in English and has self-published
Gloria Alamrew
is a freelance culture critic and writer with bylines in Kindred by Parents, InStyle, Well + Good, Refinery29, CBC, and HuffPost.
Blair Glaser
is a Los Angeles–based leadership consultant and licensed creative arts therapist. Her writing has been published in HuffPost, Longreads, Insider, The Muse, Oldster, and Shondaland.
Cinnamon Janzer
is a Minneapolis-based freelance journalist and copywriter. Her work is dedicated to covering lesser-told stories from across middle America, specializing in analytical, “second-day” reporting. Janzer regularly publishes with a number
Sia Henry
is an attorney, abolitionist, and racial justice advocate. She is the founder and executive director of the Hood Exchange and a senior policy associate at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic
Syris Valentine
is a freelance journalist and climate justice organizer, and he currently serves on Seattle’s Green New Deal Oversight Board. Syris has bylines in The Urbanist and Fix, Grist’s Climate Solutions
Bethany Teachman
is a professor, the director of clinical training, and the co-director of diversity, equity and inclusion at the University of Virginia in the Department of Psychology. She received her Ph.D.
John Restakis
is the former Executive Director of the BC Co-operative Association and has been a consultant for co-op development projects in Africa, South America, and Asia. He is a practitioner, educator,
Anna Hamilton
is a disabled, nonbinary writer. Their work has appeared in Bitch Magazine, Rooted in Rights, Bustle, Teen Vogue, the Daily Dot, Shondaland, and the Disability Visibility Project, among other places.
Makepeace Sitlhou
is an independent journalist and researcher who has been working in the media and communications field for more than a decade in India. Other than India, she has reported out
Anna Laird Barto
is a freelance writer and children’s yoga teacher based in western Massachusetts. Her work is informed by her years working in Oaxaca, Mexico, and with children and families in Boston’s
Rina Deshpande
is a pre-K-12 educator, researcher, author, and illustrator for Yoga Journal Magazine, Learning and the Brain at Harvard, Self Magazine, Talkspace, and more. She is a member of SCBWI. She
Justin J. Pearson
is the co-founder of Memphis Community Against the Pipeline and the founder of Memphis Community Against Pollution.
Jena Brooker
is a freelance journalist based in Detroit. She writes about the environment, food and agriculture, and inequality.
Aria Florant
is constantly traversing worlds – Black and white, grassroots and corporate, ethnic studies and finance – and building bridges in between. She is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Liberation Ventures
Trevor Smith
is the co-founder and executive director of Narrative Power of the BLIS Collective, a culture change tank focused on building narrative infrastructure across Black, Indigenous, and progressive social movements to
Britny Cordera
is a poet and journalist based in St. Louis Missouri. She reports on environmental justice, climate solutions, and culture, at the intersection of Black and Indigenous communities.
Arielle Zionts
is a South Dakota-based rural health care correspondent for Kaiser Health News. She primarily covers South Dakota and its neighboring states and tribal nations. Arielle previously worked at South Dakota
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