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Janene Yazzie

is the director of policy and advocacy at NDN Collective.

Sebastian Vacas-Oleas

is a postdoctoral affiliate at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford. He is also a lecturer and a visiting researcher at the Latin American

Deborah Stoll

is a journalist, lyricist, writer and animator. Her work has appeared in The Economist, Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Portland Mercury, San Francisco Chronicle, Punch Drink, Buzz Bands, Ignite and

Alice Pistolesi

is a journalist who focuses on how oppressed peoples and populations work to claim autonomy and self-determination, and on environmental and feminist protest movements. She is the editor of Atlas

Monica Pelliccia

is an Italian freelance multimedia journalist who covers environmental and social issues such as biodiversity conservation, women’s issues, climate change, Indigenous peoples’ rights, food security and agroecology. She has produced

Alexia Leclercq

is an environmental justice organizer and scholar. She is the policy director at PODER and co-founder of Start:Empowerment. Alexia has written for Atmos, Teen Vogue, and more. She is a

Alia Chebbab

is the co-founder of NADJA Media, an independent digital media startup launched to advocate for a greater and fairer representation of women in media. She has reported on women’s participation

Oren Panovka

is a student at Emory University.

David Flier

is an editor and reporter at RED/ACCION, where, above all, he listens and learns about new topics (and realizes how much he doesn’t know about them). He writes about the

Misty Pratt

is a medical researcher who has written for publications including Broadview, Mindful.org, and Today’s Parent. All in Her Head is her first book. She lives in Ottawa, Ontario.

LJ Slovin

is the Martha LA McCain postdoctoral fellow at the Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto. Their work has been published in Curriculum Inquiry, Journal of

micha cárdenas

, Ph.D, is an artist and associate professor of critical race and ethnic studies, and performance, play, and design at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she directs the

Yolande Clark-Jackson

is a multimedia creative communicator and consultant who has worked in various areas of publishing. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction and is an award-winning personal essayist and author

Vanessa Willoughby

is a writer and editor. She was a frequent contributor to Bitch Media, and her bylines include Teen Vogue, The New York Times, Allure, and Shondaland. She was recently featured

Mimi Fox Melton

(she/her) is the CEO of Code2040, an organization addressing the racial inequities and imbalanced distribution of power that Black and Latinx people face in tech.

Tamela Gordon

(she/her) is a freelance writer, editor, discerning book critic, and passionate communal care advocate. After several years of relying on online fundraisers for medical and housing needs, Tamela relocated from

Susan Cosier

is an award-winning freelance journalist who writes about science and the environment. Her work can be found in Scientific American, Science, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times for Kids, among others.

Bella Jacobs

is a recent graduate of Pitzer College, where she was a member of Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in Palestine.

KC Hoard

is an associate editor at The Walrus. His writing has appeared in Maclean’s, Xtra Magazine, them, and Broadview.

Ben V. Greene

is a trans man, transgender advocate, and educator who has spoken internationally on topics surrounding transgender inclusion. After coming out at age 15 in small-town Connecticut and giving a popular

Amy DePaul

is a full-time instructor in the literary journalism program of the University of California, Irvine. She freelances for a variety of publications, including Nature Magazine and others. She speaks English

Lauren Herold

joined Kenyon College in 2022 as a visiting assistant professor of women’s and gender studies. Her research explores feminist and LGBTQ cultural production, local and community media, television history, and

Malaika Parker

is the executive director of the Black Organizing Project, a community-driven organization that is working towards racial, social, and economic justice through grassroots community organizing and policy change.

Candice Norwood

is a breaking news reporter. Before The 19th, she was a digital politics reporter for PBS NewsHour, a staff writer for Governing magazine covering state and local government, and a

Julie Quiroz

grows community by nurturing culture, narrative, and story to rebirth a world of loving, joyful, regeneration. In 2020 Julie helped spark the creation of Birth Center Equity, a network of
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