writes about agriculture and food, the environment, energy, the economy and social issues for publications including Next City, Reasons to Be Cheerful, and The Furrow. He is based in Hamburg,
is a writer, photographer, and bike messenger based in Berkeley, California, whose work has appeared in Civil Eats, Berkeleyside, hoodline, and The Bold Italic.
lives in southern Vermont and is a parent of two young boys who are advantaged because of race, class, gender, and ability. Angela has taught in a variety of settings
is an educator and mom to two children under the age of 6. As an Afro-Latina in an interracial marriage, Chrissy is keenly aware of her family’s intersecting identities and
is best known for her co-authorship of The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s lives in Britain, which won the 1985 Martin Luther King Award for Literature. She is a
is a sociolinguist and associate professor in the Department of French and Italian Studies at the University of Washington. Her scholarship broadly focuses on the intersection of race, language, and
is the author of The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum at the U.S.-Mexican Border and Beyond. He is a regular contributor to The Nation and The Intercept, and an award-winning translator. A long-term
is a writer and activist living in England. She has worked as a refugee advocate, physics teacher, and journalist. She is currently studying for an M.A. at SOAS.
is co-founder of the Hawley Hamlet, a writer, and a career political organizer who has served as the state coordinator of Nebraskans for Peace since 1993.
is the co-founder of the investigative news nonprofit Public Herald and Public Herald Studies. She covers environmental crime & policy. She co-directed award-winning documentaries Triple Divide, Triple Divide [REDACTED], and
is author of The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning. His upcoming book, The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place
covers consumer affairs for Stateline. Povich has reported for Newsday, the Chicago Tribune and United Press International. She also has worked as a freelancer for the Washington Post, the Fiscal Times, Governing, Kiplinger and AARP Bulletin.
is a queer Korean American writer, entrepreneur, and activist based in Oakland, California. She is the author of The Wake Up (Hachette, Fall 2021), and CEO of Awaken. Follow Michelle on LinkedIn, Instagram, or Twitter.
began her journalistic training with the Maynard Institute of Journalism Education’s Oakland Voices. Currently as an independent journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area she covers all things social
(she/her) brings a wide ranging perspective to her writing based on her experiences as an attorney and working for food insecurity and nutrition nonprofits. She was a 2013 LongHouse Food
is the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian. As Secretary, he oversees 19 museums, 21 libraries, the National Zoo, numerous research centers, and several education units and centers. Previously, Bunch was
seeks powerful integrative solutions to address our world’s greatest challenges. As an academic, she studies, lectures and consults on the ‘power of paradox’ – how both/and approaches to conflicts and
is the Whitney Family Endowed Professor of Accounting and Cohen Family Director of Diversity at the University of Delaware. She researches the role of auditors, data analytics, regulations, audit litigation
is a nonbinary writer, photographer, and multidisciplinary artist interested in redefining standard approaches to storytelling with an axis fixed in identities outside the status quo. As a queer immigrant, they
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