is an educator, writer, and historian, who has been a researcher of African and African American history for more than 20 years. He is founder and CEO of Black Scroll

is the Guardian’s Environment editor.

 is an associate professor of Political Science & African American Studies at Pennsylvania State University.

is a professor of Political Science at the University of Florida, where she specializes in African American Studies and minority politics.

continues her activism. After Standing Rock, she traveled to Greece to help Syrian refugees and then to Tanzania, where she worked with a local physician to set up an intensive

is a fellow in the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University, where his work focuses on the intersection of race, public policy, elections, media and popular culture.

is a professor of government and director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies. 

, an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, resides in Qualla, North Carolina. Her debut novel, Even As We Breathe, is scheduled to release September of 2020

is a photographer whose work has been widely exhibited and published. His other books are Recycled Realities and Views from the Reservation. jwillis.net

has served as Chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe since 2014. sioux.org/government.html

is the largest Black-owned bank in the U.S.

is an associate professor of History at the University of Arizona.

is a contributing editor at High Country News. Email him at [email protected].

is a leading journalist on weather and climate change. He has written regularly for the Wall Street Journal, Slate, Grist, and The Correspondent, where he currently covers our interconnected relationship with the climate. He

is Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet.

is a professor of global environmental politics at the University of California, Berkeley.

is a Ph.D. candidate in environmental science, policy, and management at the University of California, Berkeley.

is the mayor of Hyattsville, Maryland, where she is the youngest and first African American mayor in the city’s 134-year history. As national co-chair of Our Black Party, Candace will

is a UK-based freelance journalist specializing in political and cultural issues.

is a Senior Research Specialist at CIVICUS and co-author of the State of Civil Society Report 2020. She has written several books and articles on political representation, social mobilization, participation

, Blackfeet/A’aniih, is a reporter/producer for Indian Country Today. He is from the great state of Montana and currently reports and lives in Washington, D.C. 

is a rising high school junior. She is passionate about the environment, equal justice, and animal rights. She loves to read, play cello, draw and cook with her mom and

is a Distinguished Teaching Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Stony Brook University.

is an assistant professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh.