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Davis Price

(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
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Lauren Shallish

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
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Ricky Rodas

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
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Drew Paul

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

Melina Packer

is an assistant professor of race, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse. She is coauthor, with Ambika Kamath, of Feminism in the Wild: How Human
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Grey Moran

is an award-winning investigative journalist with Sentient who is based in Durham, North Carolina. They have written for Civil Eats, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Al Jazeera, The
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Quinton Sankofa

is a change agent, activist, organizer, planner, and nonprofit management consultant. He is a co-director and collective member of Movement Generation and the co-owner of Sirius Creativity. Born and raised
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Jonathan Tarleton

is a writer, an urban planner, and an oral historian. He previously served as the chief researcher on Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas and as the editor in chief of

Alexandria Russell

Ph.D., is a non-resident W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellow at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. Russell can be reached out www.dralexandriarussell.com.
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Nick Tilsen

(he/him) is a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation, an organizer, social entrepreneur, community builder, and Movement Leader. He is the founder and CEO of the NDN Collective. Tilsen has
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Lauren DeLaunay Miller

is a reporter based in the Eastern Sierra, covering health inequalities in rural California. Her reporting on wildfire smoke and reproductive health care access for the California Health Report earned
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William C. Anderson

is a writer and activist from Birmingham, Alabama. His work has appeared in The Guardian, MTV, Truthout, British Journal of Photography, and Pitchfork, among others. He is the author of

Kenechi Udogu

is a Nigerian-born, London-based writer and architect whose work centers on culturally diverse characters, particularly female protagonists standing strong in challenging conditions. Her novel, Augmented, was the inaugural winner of

Lily Séjor

is a writer from Guadeloupe (a butterfly-shaped island in the Caribbean). She is a Black woman of trans experience, currently residing in Paris, at the intersection of multiple marginalized identities

Arekpitan Ikhenaode

is a writer based in Lagos, Nigeria. She works as a development communicator, helping nonprofits reach the grassroots, communicate their ideas, and document their impacts. Her work has been featured

Dortell Williams

is an incarcerated essayist serving his 36 year of incarceration without parole in California. He is currently earning his Master of Arts through California State University, Dominguez Hills, and is
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Gabriella Sotelo

is an editorial fellow at Sentient. Her background is in both environmental and science reporting and her work has appeared in The Guardian, Gizmodo, and National Audubon Society. Sotelo holds
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Grace Hussain

covers farming and agricultural policy for Sentient. Her reporting has been published in Truthdig and the Good Men Project. Hussain holds her Master of Science in Animals and Public Policy

Justin A. Davis

is a freelance journalist, poet, and former grassroots organizer. He’s covered politics, culture, and history for outlets like Waging Nonviolence, Scalawag, MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, Prism, and No Bells. He
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Amal Ahmed

is a freelance reporter currently based in Vancouver, Washington. She spent several years covering environmental and climate issues in Texas, where she was born and raised. Her work has been
Marc van der Sterren, a white man with short brown hair and glasses, hugs a bundle of bananas.

Marc van der Sterren

has been a freelance journalist for nearly 20 years first in agricultural journalism and now in environmental journalism. Currently, he is freelance investigative journalist for Reporters Online and he covers

David Flier

is a journalist based in Argentina, specializing in solutions journalism and human rights, with a particular focus on the rights of people with disabilities. He spent four years as a

Miah Chalfant

, also known as Heóvá’é’e (Yellow Hair Woman), is a storyteller. Through her hide paintings, ledger art, and canvases, she tells the stories that have been told to her. She

Shawnee Real Bird

, also known as Horse Across Way by her Apsáalooke ancestors, is an Indigenous poet and photographer with deep roots on her home reservation on the Crow (Apsáalooke) Nation in
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