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Bill Shireman

Bill Shireman is president and CEO at Future 500, a global nonprofit specializing in stakeholder engagement and building bridges between parties at odds - often corporations and NGOs, the …
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Linnea M. Paton

Linnea Paton is a climate justice activist living in Brooklyn, NY. She began her work organizing non-violent civil disobedience against fossil fuels with Students for a Just and Stable …
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Edward Erikson

Edward Erikson is a partner at MacWilliams Sanders Erikson, a communications firm that works with candidates and causes. He is the communications consultant and campaign manager for Ben Cohen's …
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Lawrence Grossberg

Lawrence Grossberg is the Morris Davis Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. One of the first students to …
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Elizabeth Schulte

Elizabeth Schulte is based in Chicago, and writes frequently on low-wage workers, the Democratic Party and women’s liberation. She is a contributor to the book U.S. Politics in an …
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Gail Ablow

Gail Ablow is a producer for Moyers & Company.
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Nadia Kayyali

Nadia Kayyali is a member of EFF's activism team. Nadia is particularly interested in surveillance, national security policy, and the intersection of criminal justice, racial justice, and digital civil …
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William Ayers

William Ayers is retired as a distinguished professor of education and senior university scholar at the University of Illinois-Chicago; is founder of the Small Schools Workshop and the Center …