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Roxann Murray

is an award-winning neurodivergent documentary photographer with Nakota and Dakota ancestry based in Tacoma, Washington. Her latest photography project, “Matriarch,” was funded by the Tacoma Artists Initiative Program grant. Find

Kendra Thomas

is an associate professor of psychology at Hope College and a mother of two. She researches character development among parents of young children (in a Zulu South African community) and

Katie Myers

is a writer, theatre artist, and audio producer in the Mountain South. Currently, Myers works as a Climate Solutions Fellow with Grist, and before that she was a reporter with

Francesca T. Royster

is a professor of English at DePaul University in Chicago. Her books include Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions (University of Texas Press, 2022), Sounding Like a No-No: Queer Sounds

Eva Marabotto

is a journalist and editor with experience in print, radio, television and online media for Argentina’s Diario Clarín and Agencia Télam. As a working solutions journalist, she covers a wide

Jamie Liu

(she/they) is a writer, climate resilience planner, and climate activism volunteer. She was born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley, California, and currently lives in New York City. This

Zoe Young

(she/her) is based in San Francisco, where she serves as head of creative content for The Nature Conservancy in California and teaches playwriting and screenwriting at Berkeley City College. More

Sanjana Sekhar

(she/her) is a socioecological storyteller amplifying character-driven stories that help heal our human relationships to ourselves, each other, and our planet. As a writer, creative producer, and film director, her

Andrew Kenneson

(he/him) works with the Western Reserve Land Conservancy in Cleveland, Ohio, on urban green space projects. He’s previously written for local newspapers in Georgia and Alaska.

Rae Mariz

(she/her) is a Portuguese-Hawaiian speculative fiction storyteller, artist, translator, and cultural critic with roots in the Big Island, Bay Area, and Pacific Northwest. She’s the author of the Utopia Award-nominated

Abubakar Muktar Abba

is a freelance journalist who reports for HumAngle Media. He is also a translator (in Kanuri and Hausa), in addition to working in peace and dialogue, and community development. He

Kristen Zimmerman

is a writer, artist and world-builder based in Oakland, California. They are currently an Adjunct Professor at California State University East Bay, teaching narrative illustration and comics. They hold an

Rufaro Gwarada

is committed to a world animated by unhu (ubuntu)—the understanding that collective and individual wellbeing are one and the same. She is a mama, writer, International Coaching Federation certified coach,

Shawna Wakefield

is committed to cultivating joyful, trusting relationships for loving power. She is a facilitator, teacher, and strategist who helps social justice leaders and their groups infuse complex work and lives

Kate Sosin

is the LGBTQ+ reporter for The 19th, focusing on transgender rights, incarceration, politics, and public policy. Kate has conducted deep-dive investigations into transgender prison abuse and homicides for NBC News.

Sham-e-Ali Nayeem

is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, musician, and recovering social justice lawyer with Hyderabadi Muslim roots. She is the author of the poetry collection City of Pearls (Upset Press, 2019) and

Hannah Hough

is the executive editor of the California Health Report, which partners with communities across the state to share ideas for making our world more equitable. She speaks English, and is

Caitlin Breedlove

has been organizing, writing, and building movements in red states for the last 20 years, and working across lines of race, class, culture, gender, sexuality, and faith. All In is her first

Max Graham

is a journalist in Alaska, and the former food and agriculture fellow at Grist. He previously reported for the Chilkat Valley News, the local newspaper in Haines, Alaska. His writing

Anneliese Bruner

is a writer-editor who has worked in corporate, media, and nonprofit sectors for such entities as BET and the Education Trust. She is a member of The Authors Guild, and

Erin Aubry Kaplan

began her journalistic career in the 1980s writing for Accent L.A., an independent monthly newsmagazine covering the Black community in Los Angeles. In 1992 she began writing for the Los

Torie Weiston-Serdan

is co-founder and chief visionary officer of the Youth Mentoring Action Network (YMAN), a youth power-building organization located in California’s Inland Empire. She currently serves as a board member at

Joie Lou Shakur

(they/them) is a Black trans immigrant from Jamaica. They are currently a Southern culture worker, medicine maker, and filmmaker based in rural North Carolina. Joie Lou is the executive director

Meghan Elizabeth Kallman

is a professor, organizer, and a state senator, representing Rhode Island District 15.

Josephine Ferorelli

is a writer, illustrator, and yoga instructor who lives in Chicago, Illinois.
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