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Nancy Kricorian

is the author of four novels focused on post-genocide Armenian diaspora experience. Her most recent book, The Burning Heart of the World, is about Armenians in Beirut during the Lebanese
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Kellian Staggers

(she/her) is a member of the Navajo Nation with African American ancestry, and works as an advancement officer at NDN Collective. Prior to joining NDN Collective, she worked as a
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Lynda V. Mapes

covers environmental and Indigenous issues for the Seattle Times. She is author of six books, including most recently Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home, winner of the 2021 National Outdoor Book

Juliana Bidadanure

is an associate professor of philosophy, and affiliated faculty of law, at New York University. Before that, she was assistant professor of philosophy at Stanford University where she founded the

Bo Ruberg

is professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine. They are the author of three books, Video Games Have Always Been Queer, The Queer Games Avant-Garde:
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Poorvi Gupta

is an independent journalist based in New Delhi, India. She has been covering sociopolitical issues from gender perspective for nine years now. She started her career as a journalist with
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Kevin A. Young

Ph.D., teaches history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His most recent book is Abolishing Fossil Fuels: Lessons from Movements That Won (PM Press, 2024). His other books include Blood
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Raquel Willis

is an award-winning author, activist, and media strategist dedicated to collective liberation, especially for Black trans folks. She is the co-founder of the Gender Liberation Movement. Raquel hosts two podcast
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Tré Vasquez

is a Xicano organizer, artist, poet, and comedian. He was raised working class in southern Arizona—a copper mining town impacted by environmental racism and militarization of the so-called border. He

Robert O. Smith

is assistant professor of history at the University of North Texas and an enrolled citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. He is the author of More Desired than Our Own Salvation:

Aja Y. Martinez

is associate professor of Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and author of the award-winning Counterstory: The Rhetoric and Writing of Critical Race Theory.
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Ilima-Lei Macfarlane

(she/her) is the Climate Justice Initiative Coordinator at NDN Collective. Born and raised on the island of O’ahu, she now lives in Kumeyaay territory in San Diego where she works
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Davis Price

(he/him), is an ʻōiwi Hawaiʻi (Native Hawaiian) from Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi and the director of NDN Collective’s Climate Justice Initiative. Davis has spent nearly 15 years as an advocate for ʻāina
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Lauren Shallish

Ph.D., is an associate professor of critical disability studies in education in the Urban Education Department at Rutgers University-Newark. Her research examines the hyper-labeling of multiply-minoritized students and how constructs
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Ricky Rodas

grew up in the San Gabriel Valley and is currently based there covering health equity issues throughout Los Angeles County. He received his bachelor’s degree from Cal State L.A. and
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Drew Paul

is an associate professor of Arabic in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at

Melina Packer

is an assistant professor of race, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse. She is coauthor, with Ambika Kamath, of Feminism in the Wild: How Human
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Grey Moran

is an award-winning investigative journalist with Sentient who is based in Durham, North Carolina. They have written for Civil Eats, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Al Jazeera, The
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Quinton Sankofa

is a change agent, activist, organizer, planner, and nonprofit management consultant. He is a co-director and collective member of Movement Generation and the co-owner of Sirius Creativity. Born and raised
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Jonathan Tarleton

is a writer, an urban planner, and an oral historian. He previously served as the chief researcher on Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas and as the editor in chief of

Alexandria Russell

Ph.D., is a non-resident W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellow at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. Russell can be reached out www.dralexandriarussell.com.
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Nick Tilsen

(he/him) is a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation, an organizer, social entrepreneur, community builder, and Movement Leader. He is the founder and CEO of the NDN Collective. Tilsen has
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Lauren DeLaunay Miller

is a reporter based in the Eastern Sierra, covering health inequalities in rural California. Her reporting on wildfire smoke and reproductive health care access for the California Health Report earned
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William C. Anderson

is a writer and activist from Birmingham, Alabama. His work has appeared in The Guardian, MTV, Truthout, British Journal of Photography, and Pitchfork, among others. He is the author of

Kenechi Udogu

is a Nigerian-born, London-based writer and architect whose work centers on culturally diverse characters, particularly female protagonists standing strong in challenging conditions. Her novel, Augmented, was the inaugural winner of
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