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Enrico Gnaulati, Ph.D.

, is a clinical psychologist based in Pasadena, California. His work has been featured on Spectrum News, Al Jazeera America, public radio stations nationwide, Salon, The New Yorker, and The

Steven Gonzalez Monserrate

is a cloud anthropologist and postdoctoral researcher at the Fixing Futures Research Training Group at Goethe University. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His current book

Maria Armoudian

is a lecturer at University of Auckland and author of Lawyers Beyond Borders, Kill the Messenger, and Reporting From the Danger Zone.

Juliet Kunkel

is an independent writer, “scholar” (ambivalently), and general troublemaker who learned far more from her comrades in movement work than from the Ph.D.

Reina Sultan

is a Brooklyn-based Lebanese Muslim journalist and co-creator of 8 to Abolition. Currently the associate editorial director at The Newsette, she has previously written for VICE, Prism, Bitch, Vogue, Essence,

Lane Moore

is the award-winning author of How to Be Alone: If You Want to, and Even If You Don’t and You Will Find Your People: How to Make Meaningful Friendships As

Yashica Dutt

is a journalist, activist, award-winning writer, and a leading feminist voice on caste. Born “in a formerly untouchable ‘lower’ caste family,” she passed as dominant caste to survive discrimination. Dutt

Julia Luz Betancourt

is YES! Media’s associate editor. Her reporting has appeared in various national media outlets, including YES! Magazine, Truthout, the Latin Times, GEN-ZiNE, Scheerpost, and Z Network. She is based in New

4DaSoil

is a Black and Asian women-led cooperative and intergenerational community that leverages and shares our collective gifts, respect for the land, and our connection and wisdom of ancestors to build

Laura Pappano

is an award-winning journalist and author who has written about K-12 and higher education for more than 30 years. A former education columnist for The Boston Globe, Pappano has written

Irene Lyla Lee

is a writer, book artist, and educator dedicated to storytelling and the places where land and imagination meet. Irene’s writing has appeared in Visitant, The Rumpus, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic,

Amanda Machado

is a writer and facilitator who has been published in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Harper’s Bazaar, Outside, and other publications. You can learn more about her work at her

Aila Haqq

is a high school senior and writer based in the U.S., who is writing under a pseudonym to protect herself from intimidation retaliation for speaking out against the Gaza genocide.

Andrea Ritchie

is a Black lesbian immigrant survivor who has been documenting, organizing, advocating, litigating, and agitating around policing and criminalization of Black women, girls, trans, and gender-nonconforming people for the past

Photos by David Moskowitz

is a photographer. Moskowitz’s current work focuses on wildlife and wildlands conservation, with an emphasis on mountain landscapes and the intersection of Indigenous sovereignty and conservation in western North America.

Rico Moore

is a freelance journalist based in Port Townsend, Washington, whose work has been published by High Country News, The Margin, among others. He is also on the board of directors

Malkia Devich-Cyril

is an activist, writer, and public speaker on issues of digital rights, narrative power, Black liberation, and collective grief. Devich-Cyril is also the founding and former executive director of MediaJustice—a

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

has written for Truthout, Left Turn, Make/shift, The Abolitionist, Orion, and Harper’s. They speak English and Spanish.

Stephanie Abraham

is a nonfiction writer, media critic, and public relations practitioner. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, and she was part of the editorial collective that founded the feminist magazine

Naomi Goldstein

, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology, co-director of the J.D./Ph.D. program in law and psychology, and director of the Juvenile Justice Research and Reform (JJR&R) Lab at Drexel University.

Amanda NeMoyer

, J.D., Ph.D., is an assistant research professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Drexel University and a member of the Juvenile Justice Research & Reform Lab. NeMoyer earned

Penny Rosenwasser

, Ph.D., is the author of the award-winning book Hope into Practice: Jewish Women Choosing Justice Despite Our Fears. A founding board member of Jewish Voice for Peace, she is

LisaGay Hamilton

is a film, television, and theater actress, best known for her roles in Beloved and The Practice. She is also a writer, director and producer. Her 2003 documentary Beah: A Black Woman Speaks, which

Ricardo Levins Morales

is an artist and organizer based in Minneapolis. He uses his art as a form of political medicine to support individual and collective healing from the injuries and ongoing reality

Jess H. Ghannam

is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Global Health Sciences in the School of Medicine at UCSF. His research areas include evaluating the long-term health consequences of war on displaced communities
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