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Peter Edelman

Peter Edelman is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Public Policy and the faculty director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Georgetown University Law Center. He …
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Kristina Khan

Kristina Khan is a mother, reproductive justice educator, board member of the Channing Murray Foundation and organizer with Build Programs Not Jails in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. 
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Alka Kurian

Alka Kurian is a senior lecturer at the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington, Bothell.
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Keisha N. Blain

Keisha N. Blain is an historian of the 20th century United States with broad interdisciplinary interests and specializations in African American History, the modern African Diaspora, and Women's and …
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Debbie Prokopf

Debbie Prokopf is a union organizer in the Twin Cities and a member of OPEIU Local 12.
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Raquel Aldana

Raquel Aldana is associate vice chancellor for academic diversity and a professor of law at the University of California, Davis.
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Eileen Flanagan

Eileen Flanagan is the award-winning author of three books, most recently Renewable: One Woman's Search for Simplicity, Faithfulness, and Hope, the story of how she accidentally become a leader …
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Sharon Strover

Sharon Strover is director of the Telecommunications and Information Policy Institute and a professor of communication at the University of Texas at Austin. 
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Renee Lewis

Renee Lewis is a freelance reporter based in Washington State, previously with Al Jazeera English in Doha, Qatar, and Al Jazeera America in New York City. She lived and …
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Miriam Boeri

Miriam Boeri is an associate professor of sociology at Bentley University.