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

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

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

Siyabonga Mbhebe

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

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

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

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

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

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

, 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 

Hammer & Hope

Rasha Elwan

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

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

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

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

Matana Roberts is a composer, visual artist, saxophone player, and record maker. Their new album 

Matana Roberts

Monifa Akinwole-Bandele is a member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and the Movement for Black Lives.

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