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

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

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

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

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

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

Radhika Sainath is a senior staff attorney at Palestine Legal.

Radhika Sainath

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

Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Abdelraouf Omer is a farmer, union organizer, and a Middle East and North Africa representative of La Via Campesina, a global peasant movement. He is based in the town of Hassaheissa, in Sudan’s agricultural Gezira region, but was recently displaced by the war.

Abdelraouf Omer

, and an educator from Taperoá, in the state of Bahia, Brazil. She is part of the Movement of Fishermen and Fisherwomen and a coordinator of the Articulação Nacional de Pescadoras (National Articulation of Fisherwomen).

Bárbara Ramos é pescadora, quilombola, e pedagoga de Taperoá, no Baixo Sul da Bahia. Ela faz parte do Movimento de Pescadores e Pescadoras e é coordenadora da ANP, Articulação Nacional de Pescadoras.

Bárbara Ramos

Chase Strangio is a lawyer and trans activist.

Chase Strangio 

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Rasha Elwan

Kholood Eid is a documentary photographer, filmmaker, and educator based in New York who is known for her intimate portraiture. In 2020, Eid and her colleagues received a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for Domestic Print for The New York Times series ‘‘Exploited.’’

Kholood Eid

Tasha is a musician based in Chicago. Her most recent album is 

Tasha

Yasmina Price is a New York–based writer and film programmer completing a Ph.D. at Yale University. She focuses on anticolonial cinema from the Global South and the work of visual artists across the African continent and diaspora, with a particular interest in the experimental work of women filmmakers. Her curatorial work includes programs at Anthology Film Archives, BAM, LACMA, and Light Industry, and her writing has appeared in Lux, The Nation, The Baffler, Film Quarterly,

Yasmina Price

Lovia Gyarkye is the Arts and Culture Critic at The Hollywood Reporter, where she reviews film, TV, and the occasional Broadway show. Previously, she was an editor at The New York Times’ monthly print section for kids and a researcher for The New York Times Book Review. Her essays and reviews have been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Vogue, and The Nation.

Lovia Gyarkye

Clover Hope is an award-winning journalist and author who has led culturally rich conversations in the world of print, digital, audio, and television with a focus on thoughtful, imaginative storytelling. Her writing has appeared in the pages of Vogue, Esquire, GQ, Essence, Elle, and The Wall Street Journal. Her 2021 book 

The Motherlode: 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop

 is a historically rich documentation of women’s contributions to hip-hop, lauded by The New York Times and Forbes. She has been an editor and writer for Billboard, XXL, Vibe, and Jezebel.

Clover Hope

is a member of the Nursery Land Team Lead at 

Black Sobrante Park Community Healing Council.

Covonne Page é membro do Nursery Land Team Lead [Time de Liderança de Viveiros e Terras] da 

 [Plantando Justiça] em sua cidade natal, Oakland, na California. Ele também faz parte do the Black Sobrante Park Community Healing Council [Conselho de Cura Comunitária do Sobrante Park Negro].

Covonne Page

 (1922–2010) was a historian, author, professor, playwright, and activist. His life’s work focused on a wide range of issues, including race, class, war, and history, and touched the lives of countless people.

Howard Zinn

TheKingTrill is a community organizer and activist, political musician, and co-director of the documentary 

. He is also the director and house manager of Focus Initiative LTD, an abolitionist reentry program that builds community with people returning to Indiana from incarceration.

TheKingTrill

Sabine Lamour is a professor of sociology at the State University of Haiti in Port-au-Prince and a feminist activist.

Sabine Lamour

Braxton Brewington is a community organizer and spokesperson for the Debt Collective.

Braxton Brewington

Waldemar Oliveira serves as international adviser at Hammer & Hope and is a PhD student in history, with a focus on the African diaspora, at New York University.

Waldemar Oliveira é consultor internacional da revista Hammer & Hope e doutorando em história pela Universidade de Nova York.

Waldemar Oliveira

KC Tenants is a citywide tenant union in Kansas City, Mo., organizing to ensure that everyone in the city has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.

KC Tenants

Dareen

Hadas Thier is a writer, journalist, and activist based in Brooklyn, N.Y. She is the author of 

A People’s Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

Hadas Thier

Nisrin Elamin is an assistant professor of African studies and anthropology at the University of Toronto and a member of the Sudan Solidarity Collective. She is writing a book on Gulf Arab capital accumulation and land dispossession in central Sudan.

Nisrin Elamin

Eva Dickerson has developed mutual-aid projects and supported abolitionist coalitions on the streets of Atlanta, while working alongside very bright young people in gardens and farms across the city.

Eva Dickerson

Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and associate professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She has served as legal counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives and as a legal advocate for Palestinian refugee rights at the United Nations. She is the author of 

Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine

Noura Erakat

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a co-founder of Hammer & Hope and the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of 

Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

. She is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant” and a Guggenheim fellowship.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Rabab Elnaiem is a Sudanese activist, labor organizer, and former spokesperson for the Sudanese Workers Alliance for the Restoration of Trade Unions (SWARTU) currently based in the United States. She is a co-founder of the Ta Marbuta podcast, a feminist, anti-capitalist podcast.

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