Elizabeth Oh is an abolitionist climate organizer based in Astoria, New York. She is currently the Public Power Coalition organizer.

Elizabeth Oh

nia t. evans is a freelance writer, an inaugural Black Voices in the Public Sphere fellow at Boston Review, and a member of the editorial team at Hammer & Hope.

nia t. evans

Chenjerai Kumanyika is an assistant professor at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, a founding member of NYU’s Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, and an at-large council member for the American Association of University Professors. He is the creator and host of Empire City, a podcast that explores the untold origin story of the NYPD. He is also the co-creator, co-executive producer, and co-host of Uncivil, Gimlet Media’s Peabody Award–winning podcast on the Civil War.

Chenjerai Kumanyika

Rachel Herzing is a member of the Institute for Abolitionist Accompaniment.

Rachel Herzing

Dylan Rodríguez is Distinguished Professor of Black study and of media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of 

White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logic of Racial Genocide

Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition

Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime

Dylan Rodríguez

Michelle Alexander is a civil rights lawyer and advocate, a legal scholar, and the author of 

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

Joseph Rodríguez is a documentary photographer from Brooklyn, New York. His books include 

East Side Stories: Gang Life in East L.A.

, and his photographs have appeared in National Geographic, The Sun, The New York Times, and elsewhere.

Joseph Rodríguez

Angela Y. Davis is Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. An activist, writer, and lecturer, her work focuses on prisons, police, abolition, and the related intersections of race, gender, and class. She is the author of many books, from 

Angela Y. Davis

Ra-ad Sahaba, born and raised in Mayerno, Sennar State, is a spokesperson for the Revolutionary Charter for Establishing People’s Power.

Ra-ad Sahaba

Esther Kaplan is a longtime, award-winning reporter and editor. She previously spent years as part of ACT UP, Communications Workers of America, and Jews for Racial & Economic Justice, where she served as one of the organization’s early executive directors. She was for 15 years a cohost with Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark of Beyond the Pale, a progressive Jewish radio show on WBAI/New York.

Esther Kaplan

Marta Lia Greco is part of the educational committee of 

Centro de Formación, Educación e Investigación Campesina Tierra

Marta Lia Greco

Ula Y. Taylor is the 1960 Chair of Undergraduate Education and professor of African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of 

The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam

The Veiled Garvey: The Life and Times of Amy Jacques Garvey

Panther: A Pictorial History of the Black Panther Party and the Story Behind the Film

Ula Y. Taylor

Jesse Sharkey is a teacher (currently on leave to write) who lives in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago. He was one of the founders of CORE and served as the vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union from 2010 to 2018 and as president from 2018 to 2022.

Jesse Sharkey

Norah Alkahlout

 is professor emerita of history at UC Santa Cruz and the author of 

Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism

The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup

What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? Stories of Ordinary People and Collective Action in Hard Times

Dana Frank

Siyabonga Mbhele was born in Pietermaritzburg and is now based in Johannesburg. He works as a video editor and a documentary photographer.

Siyabonga Mbhebe

Nahomie St. Louis works in a textile factory and is an activist focused on women’s rights in Port-au-Prince.

Nahomie St. Louis

 (Heads Together Small Producers of Haiti), a national peasant organization, and a coordinating member of 

, an international peasant movement. She lives in Port-au-Prince.

Islanda Micherline Aduel

Erik Wallenberg was a visiting assistant professor of history at New College of Florida from 2022 to 2023, teaching classes in U.S. history and environmental history. He is acquisitions editor at Science for the People.

Erik Wallenberg

Robin D. G. Kelley is a professor of American history at U.C.L.A. and the author of 

Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression

Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

Robin D. G. Kelley

Tahani Ajak is a writer, engineer, teacher, and volunteer who has lived in and advocated from a refugee camp for South Sudanese in White Nile State for many years.

Tahani Ajak

Derecka Purnell is a human rights lawyer, writer, and author of 

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

 She works to end police and prison violence by providing legal assistance, research, and training in community-based organizations through an abolitionist framework. She is currently a columnist at The Guardian and a Scholar-in-Residence at Columbia Law School.

Derecka Purnell

Abdulrahman Ali, also known as Abu Lamees, is an organizer in Sudan’s Khartoum North industrial zone.

Abdulrahman Ali

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is the author of six books, including 

, which was long-listed for a National Book Award and won a NAACP Image Award for Literary Work, and the novel 

, which was long-listed for a National Book Award and won a National Book Critics Circle Award. Jeffers is the Paul and Carol Daube Sutton Professor of English at University of Oklahoma.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Priscilla Grim (she/her) is a Nuyorican, mom, comrade, and activist based in Brooklyn, New York. She has written for 

Priscilla Grim

Ann Larson is a writer and activist focused on economic justice and a fellow with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

Ann Larson

Ashley M. Jones is the poet laureate of Alabama (2022–2026); author of 

; and founding director of the Magic City Poetry Festival.

Ashley M. Jones

Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele is a member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement.

Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele

Taja Cheek is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and vocalist from Brooklyn. She released her 

Taja Cheek

Kandace Montgomery is a grassroots organizer, trainer, and movement strategist who co-founded 

Kandace Montgomery

Too Black is a poet, host of the Black Myths podcast, member of the Black Alliance for Peace, communications coordinator for the Defense Committee to Free the Pendleton 2, co-director of the documentary 

Laundering Black Rage: The Washing of Black Death, People, Property, and Profit

Too Black

Sara Abbas is a researcher of gender, the state, and social movements, with a focus on Sudan. Her publications include a contribution to 

Diversity on Common Ground: Ten Perspectives on Modern Feminism

Sara Abbas

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is an associate professor of philosophy at Georgetown University. He is the author of 

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Amelia Kirby is a member of the Institute for Abolitionist Accompaniment.

Amelia Kirby

Radhika Sainath is a senior staff attorney at Palestine Legal.

Radhika Sainath

Demetrius Noble is a radical cultural worker and a member of Greensboro Revolutionary Socialists. He serves as an adjunct professor in African American and diaspora studies at UNC Greensboro. His work has been published in The African American Review, The Journal of Pan African Studies, The Journal of Black Masculinity, Socialism & Democracy, Works and Days, Cultural Logic, Rampant Magazine, and other leftist publications.

Demetrius Noble

Noor Swirki

Chelsea Pachito is a tour manager based in Rotterdam.

Chelsea Pachito

Edgar Franks is the political director at 

, an independent farmworker union in Washington State.

um sindicato independente de trabalhadores do campo no estado de Washington.

Edgar Franks

Brandon Tizol is a born-and-raised New Yorker living in Harlem. He is an organizer and digital communicator with New York City Democratic Socialists of America.

Brandon Tizol

Mariah Parker is a Southern organizer, educator, and hip-hop artist. They served as an Athens–Clarke County Commissioner from 2018 to 2022.

Mariah Parker

Gavin Raders is a co-founder and co-director of 

 and a cultural anthropologist. He has been part of several movements for peace as well as racial, economic, and environmental justice over the past 17 years.

Gavin Raders é sócio fundador e codiretor da 

 [Plantando Justiça] e antropólogo cultural. É militante de vários movimentos pacíficos, bem como de movimentos por justiça racial, econômica, e ambiental há 17 anos.

Gavin Raders

Tera W. Hunter is a professor of American history and African American studies at Princeton.

Tera W. Hunter

Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine is an associate professor of history and African American studies at Wayne State University. She is the author of 

The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender and the Black Panther Party in Oakland

Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine

Donna Murch is an associate professor of history at Rutgers University and served as the president of the New Brunswick chapter of the Rutgers AAUP-AFT from 2020 to 2024. She is the author of 

Living for the City: Migration, Education and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California

, which won the Phillis Wheatley Prize in December 2011, and, most recently, 

Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives

Donna Murch

Anonymous

Giovani del Prete is a member of the continental secretariat of 

Giovani del Prete

Hahrie Han is a professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of 

Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church

Hahrie Han

Hala Alyan is a Palestinian American writer and clinical psychologist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Guernica, and elsewhere. Her poetry collections have won the Arab American Book Award and the Crab Orchard Series, and her debut novel, 

, won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Her latest novel, 

, was a finalist for the 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize. Her forthcoming collection of poetry, 

Hala Alyan

Amira Hass is the Haaretz correspondent for the occupied territories. Born in Jerusalem in 1956, Hass joined Haaretz in 1989 and has been in her current position since 1993. She spent three years living in Gaza, which served as the basis for her widely acclaimed book 

. She has lived in the West Bank city of Ramallah since 1997. Hass is also the author of two other books, both of which are compilations of her articles.

Amira Hass

Zainab Bashir

Jen Parker is the editor and co-founder of Hammer & Hope and a former New York Times opinion editor.

Jen Parker

Devyn Rolls is studying English at New College of Florida. They are in their third year preparing to serve as the Black Student Union vice president and the New College Student Alliance’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion co-chair.

Devyn Rolls

Lily Greenberg Call is a former special assistant to the chief of staff at the Department of the Interior. She worked on President Biden’s 2020 campaign and served in the administration until May 15, 2024, when she became the first Jewish political appointee to resign in protest of US policy in Gaza. She has appeared as a guest on MSNBC, CNN, and NBC and been interviewed by The Washington Post, Politico, and the Associated Press.

Lily Greenberg Call

Barbara Ransby, a professor of history, gender, and women’s studies and Black studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago, is the author of 

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement

Barbara Ransby

Kaleem Hawa is a Palestinian writer and organizer. His poetry has been published in The Poetry Review, The White Review, and Mizna, among others.

Kaleem Hawa

Rhiana Gunn-Wright, an architect of the Green New Deal, directs the climate policy program at the Roosevelt Institute. She is writing a book about intersections among white supremacy, addiction, and the climate crisis.

Rhiana Gunn-Wright

Darryl Li is an anthropologist and lawyer who teaches at the University of Chicago.

Darryl Li

dream hampton is an award-winning filmmaker and writer from Detroit. For three decades her essays and cultural criticism helped shape a generation. Her most recent works include the award-winning short films 

, which broke TV ratings records and earned her a Peabody Award. In 2019, hampton was named one of Time 100’s most influential people in the world.

dream hampton

Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist

 and co-creator and co-host of Purse First, the first podcast exclusively about female and queer rap. She was an entertainment writer at Refinery29 and an architect of Unbothered. She also oversaw the entertainment vertical at NYLON magazine. Most recently, she co-wrote hip-hop legend Trina’s memoir 

Sesali Bowen

Astra Taylor is a writer, documentarian, and co-founder of the 

, a union of debtors. She is the author of numerous books, including 

Democracy May Not Exist but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone

The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart

Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea

 (co-authored with Leah Hunt-Hendrix). She is on the editorial team of Hammer & Hope.

Astra Taylor

Vinícius Assis is a journalist with nearly two decades of experience covering issues across the Americas and Africa. Since 2018, he has been the only Brazilian MoJo (mobile journalist) reporting from African countries for media in Brazil, the U.S., and Europe.

Vinícius Assis

Nicki Kattoura is a Palestinian writer and editor. His writing has been featured in Mondoweiss, Palestine Studies, Middle East Eye, Them, and GQ Middle East.

Nicki Kattoura

Nadine Fattaleh is a Ph.D. student in the department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. Her translation of Khadijeh Habashneh’s 

Knights of Cinema: The Story of the Palestine Film Unit

 was published in May 2023. She is a member of the Palestinian Social Fund.

Nadine Fattaleh

Jocelyn Simonson is a professor at Brooklyn Law School and the author of 

Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People are Dismantling Mass Incarceration

Jocelyn Simonson

Martha Biondi is director of graduate studies, Lorraine H. Morton Professor of Black Studies, and professor of history at Northwestern University. She is the author of 

To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City

Martha Biondi

Arundhati Roy lives in New Delhi. She is the author of the novels 

, for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize, and 

. A collection of her essays from the past twenty years, 

, was published by Haymarket Books. Her latest book is

Azadi: Fascism, Fiction, and Freedom in the Time of the Virus

, which was awarded the European Essay Prize.

Arundhati Roy

Shirley Ngozi Nwangwa is a writer based in Brooklyn.

Shirley Ngozi Nwangwa

 (a rural worker who receives a portion of land distributed by the state) from the city of Camamu, in the state of Bahia, Brazil. She leads the Costa do Dendê brigade, a collective within the 

Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) of Brazil

Elenilda Nascimento é quilombola e assentada da cidade de Camumu, na Bahia. Ela lidera a Brigada do Dendê, um coletivo regional de organização de base do 

Movimento de trabalhadores Sem Terra (MST)

Elenilda Nascimento

Carrie Mae Weems is an activist, photographer, video maker, and performance artist. She received a MacArthur Foundation Grant in 2013.

Carrie Mae Weems

Mohammed Nabulsi is an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement.

Mohammed Nabulsi

Tiffany Dena Loftin is a higher education lead for the 

 and the senior campaign lead at the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA. She previously served as the national director for the youth and college division at the NAACP. She lives in Atlanta.

Tiffany Dena Loftin

Susan Kang is an associate professor of political science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY, living in Jackson Heights, Queens. She is an organizer with the New York City Democratic Socialists of America and a member of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC-CUNY).

Susan Kang

Tariq Habash is a co-founder and director of A New Policy. He served as a policy adviser at the Department of Education’s Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development and led the office’s student loan portfolio, regulatory policy planning, and budget development across higher-education issues. He was the second government official and the first political appointee to publicly resign from the Biden administration due to its policy on Gaza and unrestricted support for Israel.

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