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Taylor Sisk

is a writer, editor, researcher, producer and documentary filmmaker. He has served as a managing and contributing editor of The Carrboro Citizen and an associate and contributing editor of the

Chris Tittle

is the Director of Housing and Land Justice at Sustainable Economies Law Center. He is an attorney, organizer, and facilitator based in Charleston, South Carolina.

Judy Fahys

is InsideClimate News’ Mountain West reporter, covering the environment, politics, and business. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, High Country News, and Outside magazine

Martin Shaw, PhD

is an acclaimed scholar of myth and author of the award-winning Mythteller trilogy, The Night Wages, and Life Cycle, his conversation and essay on the artist Ai WeiWei, was recently released by the Marciano

Katie McCabe

is a freelance writer whose article on African American medical legend Vivien Thomas won a National Magazine Award and was the basis for an award-winning HBO film. Mighty Justice is

Dovey Johnson Roundtree

was an attorney and minister who was one of the first women to be commissioned as an Army officer and who helped win a landmark case banning segregation in interstate

Nathanael Johnson

is Grist’s senior writer and the author of two books.

Florina Rodov

is a former public school teacher who has written for The Atlantic, CNN, Shondaland, and others. She’s working on two books. 

Paul S. Adler

is currently Harold Quinton Chair of Business Policy and Professor of Management and Organization, Sociology, and Environmental Studies at the University of Southern California. He began his education in Australia,

Rob Ruck

is a professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. He’s the author of Sandlot Seasons: Sport in Black Pittsburgh and produced the film Kings on the Hill: Baseball’s Forgotten

Liza Ramrayka

is a San Francisco-based social justice journalist. She has written and commissioned for The Guardian, The Times of London, HuffPost and News Deeply.
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Samantha Nobles-Block

is a San Francisco Bay Area-based freelance writer. She is a monthly columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle’s Culture Desk, and her work has appeared in San Francisco Magazine, Hyperallergic,

Linghua (Lily) Qi

is a Chicago-based freelance journalist and a recent graduate from Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Her reporting focuses on community and social justice issues. She is a current

Coral Natalie Negrón Almodóvar

is a Puerto Rican data journalist, a current grantee of the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University, and Patti Birch for Data Journalism Fellow at the Committee to

Ronnie Cummins

is founder and director of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), a non-profit, US-based network of more than two million consumers dedicated to safeguarding organic standards and promoting a healthy, just,

Patrick Ammerman

is a Philadelphia-based journalist and a 2019 Pulitzer Center student fellow.

Claire Jarvis

is a science and medical writer based in Atlanta.

Oscar Perry Abello

is a NYC-based journalist covering community development and economic justice.

Patrick Blindauer

is a professional crossword puzzle maker with over 60 puzzles published in The New York Times.

John Moore

is a photojournalist and Getty Images special correspondent. He is author of “Undocumented: Immigration and the Militarization of the US-Mexico Border.”

Daniel Holland

is a lifelong political activist and award-winning poet who has worked as a longshoreman and in many other blue-collar jobs. He is married and lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This is

Karishma Upadhyay

is a freelance journalist who writes about pop culture and travel, often through the lens of gender. Her work has appeared in People Magazine, India Today, Forbes, The Telegraph and elsewhere. 

Teresa Purcell

lives in Longview, a city of 37,000 in southwest Washington. She is the founder of the Working Democracy Center/Project.  She consults on rural organizing projects and helps recruit and train women and people

Tyler Wells Lynch

is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Vice, Gizmodo, Wirecutter, USA Today, The Rumpus, and the Huffington Post. He lives in Maine.
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