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Noura Khouri

Noura Khouri is a Palestinian in the diaspora from the Bay Area and has worked for the past two decades as a human rights activist, campaign strategist and a …
Rebekah Barber

Rebekah Barber

Rebekah is a writer based in Durham, North Carolina. Previously she was an inaugural Frances Ellen Watkins Harper editorial fellow at The 19th. She was also a writer at …
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Taryn Fivek

Taryn Fivek is speaking with people across the country during the 2016 campaign season. Follow her project at noplatform.org or Twitter at @fivek.
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Michele Oberholtzer

Michele Oberholtzer is a writer, activist, engineer and entrepreneur. She is the founder of The Tricycle Collective and Bring-a-Ling bicycle bells.
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Sheila Mulrooney Eldred

Sheila Mulrooney Eldred writes about health and fitness for a variety of publications. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Outside.com, Discovery News, Pacific Standard and Runner’s World, among others. She's a graduate …
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Levi Gahman

Levi is a loyal, but stumbling, adherent to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle from rural Kansas (ancestral Osage territories) and currently working with the Institute for Gender …
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Regina Willis

Regina Willis is a freelance reporter rooted in the South. They've written about education policy, abortion restrictions and LGBTQ issues. With a formal background in economics, they are a …
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Andre Perry

Dr. Andre Perry, a contributing writer, is the former founding dean of urban education at Davenport University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Previously, Perry worked in both academic and administrative …
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Eric Dirnbach

Eric Dirnbach is a union researcher and labor activist in New York City. He has published in Jacobin, Labor Notes, New Labor Forum and Organizing Work.
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Immanuel Wallerstein

Immanuel Wallerstein is a sociologist and currently a Senior Research Scholar at Yale University.