Tricia Hersey
is an Atlanta-based multidisciplinary artist, writer, theologian, and community organizer. She is the founder of The Nap Ministry, and author of the book Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto, publishing in
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Megan Sweas
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Andrew Lee
is a writer and organizer plotting a better world in Philadelphia. His work has appeared in Anti-Racism Daily, Notes From Below, Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, Plan A, ROAR Magazine, and
Elaine Meyer
writes about work, public health, and technology, writing for outlets including Dame, Salon, Fast Company, Forbes, Huffington Post, and Pacific Standard. Previously, she worked as a communications specialist in public
Bryan Keogh
is the senior editor for Economy and Business at The Conversation. Before joining The Conversation in 2014, Bryan spent the previous decade writing and editing on business, finance, and economics
Samir Doshi
is an ecologist and organizer working on food and land sovereignty, climate justice, and worker justice. He is a Race and Technology Practitioner Fellow at Stanford University’s Digital Civil Society
Mike De Socio
is an award-winning independent journalist who writes about social justice and solutions. He grew up in New Jersey, where he became an Eagle Scout, and later earned a degree in journalism
Hasan Kwame Jeffries
is an associate professor of history at The Ohio State University where he teaches courses on the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement.
Sonali Kolhatkar
joined YES! in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of YES! Presents: Rising
Haley Dunleavy
is a Ralph W. F. Hardy Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Inside Climate News. She graduated with her Ph.D.
Anne Keala Kelly (Kānaka Maoli)
is a filmmaker and journalist living on Hawai’i Island. Her works depict the critical links between cultural, Film, and spiritual survival in the movement for Hawaiian self-determination and Indigenous peoples’ struggles for territorial and environmental survival. She is an outspoken advocate for Indigenous self-representation in mass media. Keala is a Ted
Alec Connon
is the coordinator of the Stop the Money Pipeline coalition, a coalition of over 160 organizations working to stop the flow of money from Wall Street to the fossil fuel
Ezra David Romero
is a climate reporter for KQED News. He covers the absence and excess of water in the Bay Area — think sea-level rise, flooding, and drought. For nearly a decade
Paige Curtis
is a third culture kid, writing at the intersection of environmentalism, Blackness, and pop culture. She covers climate tech, Black environmentalism, and uplifts the environmental ethics embedded in Caribbean livelihoods.
Sushma Subramanian
is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Mary Washington and author of How to Feel: The Science and Meaning of Touch.
Inger Burnett-Zeigler
is a licensed clinical psychologist and associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. She has two decades of
Lindsay VanSomeren
is a writer covering environmental stories in the Pacific Northwest for outlets like Crosscut and REI. She also writes personal finance stories for outlets like Forbes and The Balance. She
Gregory Scruggs
is an independent journalist based in Seattle who writes about built, natural, and cultural environments. His work has been published in the Washington Post, New York Times, Guardian and Bloomberg
Laura Paddison
is a climate, environment and social inequality journalist. She writes for publications including the Guardian and WIRED, and previously edited climate-focused series at HuffPost and the Guardian.
Kerry Whigham
is Assistant Professor of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention at Binghamton University’s Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP). He has published articles in Genocide Studies and Prevention, The
Vivienne Machi
is an award-winning reporter based in Stuttgart, Germany. Her writing has appeared in outlets including Foreign Policy, Defense News, and the Dayton Daily News.
Jackie Brown
is a researcher, writer, and urban planner focused on economic justice and community-led initiatives.
David Miguel Gray
is the assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Memphis. He has published work in leading journals such as Philsophers’ Imprint, Mind, Schizophrenia Research, The Journal of Medicine and
Michelle Nijhuis
is a project editor at the Atlantic, a contributing editor at High Country News, and an award-winning reporter whose work has been published in National Geographic and the New York
Frederick Douglass
was an American abolitionist, orator, newspaper publisher, and author. He was born in February 1818, in Talbot county, Maryland, and died February 20, 1895, in Washington, D.C. He is well-known for his first autobiography, Narrative
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