Patty Berne
is the co-founder and co-director of Sins Invalid, a disability justice-based performance project.
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Avis Jones-DeWeever
is the founder of the Exceptional Leadership Institute for Women. She is president of Incite Unlimited.
Tina Vasquez
is a movement journalist who has reported on immigration, reproductive injustice, gender, food, labor, and culture for more than a decade. She is the editor-at-large for Prism and a board
Suzanna Finley
is a photographer and writer based in the Southwest.
Jill Langlois
is an independent journalist based in São Paulo, Brazil.
Carly Graf
is a graduate student journalist at Northwestern University, where she focuses on social justice reporting.
Eleanor Goldberg
is a freelance writer whose coverage focuses on the intersection of poverty and health. She lives in New York City.
Guillermo Torres
is a fellow of the Freedom Forum and the Institute for Journalism Education’s Minority Editing Program. He’s worked at the Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News and the Santa Fe
Ruha Benjamin
is an associate professor of African American Studies at Princeton University.
Patrick Bigger
is a lecturer in the critical geographies group within LEC.
Oliver Belcher
is an assistant professor in human geography at Durham University.
Benjamin Neimark
is a human geographer and political ecologist who focuses on the uneven development of green and bio-economies.
Kristin Ohlson
is the author of “The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers and Foodies are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet.” She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Shawn Wong
is author of the novels “Homebase” and “American Knees,” and co-editor of “Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian American Writers” and “The Big Aiiieeeee!” He is a professor of English at
Ida Harris
is a journalist and cultural critic covering a range of topics that intersect with Blackness, including art, activism, pop culture, and womanhood.
Christine Hitt
is a professional writer from Hawai‘i. She’s the former editor of Native Hawaiian publication MANA Magazine.
Alex Gallo-Brown
is a writer based in Seattle, where he works as a union organizer.
Rob Hart
is the author of five novels, the short story collection “Take-Out,” and “Scott Free” with James Patterson. His latest book is “The Warehouse.”
Heike Geissler
lives in Leipzig, Germany, where she teaches creative writing. Her novel “Seasonal Associate” is a writer’s account of working in an Amazon fulfillment center.
Biba Adams
is a Detroit-based writer with a passion for people and places. Her work has appeared in Ebony Magazine, VIBE, The Root and The Grio.
Emily Guendelsberger
was a reporter who took a pre-Christmas job at an Amazon fulfillment center outside Louisville, Kentucky. Her book, “On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
is a feminist, journalist, opinion writer, and the author of three books, including Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy and the Fear of Female Power (Melville House). They live
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