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Alex Emmons

Alex Emmons is a recent graduate of Yale College. He currently work for Amnesty International, USA, on the National Security Activism team.
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Elizabeth Tandy Shermer

Assistant professor of history at Loyola University Chicago. She has written extensively about right-to-work laws, capital mobility, and economic inequality. She is currently working on a book titled, The …
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John Washington

John Washington is a novelist and translator based in Arizona. His co-translation (along with Daniela Maria Ugaz) of Sandra Rodriguez Nieto’s The Story of Vicente, Who Murdered His Mother, His …
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Michael McPhearson

Michael McPhearson is the executive director of Veterans For Peace and veteran of the Persian Gulf War also known as the First Iraq War.  Michael's military career includes six …
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Mary Hoff

Mary Hoff is editor in chief of Ensia. An award-winning science communicator, she has more than two decades' experience helping to improve understanding, appreciation and stewardship of the environment …
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Miriam Klein Stahl

Miriam Klein Stahl is a Bay Area artist, educator and activist. In addition to her work in printmaking, drawing, sculpture, paper-cut and public art, she is also the cofounder …
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Kate Schatz

Kate Schatz is a writer, editor and educator. She has been published in Oxford American, Denver Quarterly, Joyland and West Branch, among others, and her short story ‘Folsom, Survivor’ …
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Jay Mandle

Jay Mandle is professor of economics at Colgate University.
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Benji Hart

Benji Hart is a Black, mixed-class, queer femme dedicated to combining arts and education to inspire direct action. Their writing has been featured in the AK Press anthology Taking …