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Josef Burton
Josef Burton is a former American diplomat. He is currently working on a book about the Muslim ban at the intersection of empire, migration, liberalism and Islamophobia. He tweets at @PinstripeBungle. 

Mary Turfah
Mary Turfah is a writer and resident physician.

Anabelle Johnston
Anabelle Johnston is a writer and founding editor of Syntax Magazine. She currently lives in Seoul. 

Judah Schept
Judah Schept is a professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. He is the author of Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia and Progressive Punishment: Job Loss, Jail Growth, and the Neoliberal Logic of Carceral ...

Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs is an assistant professor of geography and African American and Africana studies at the University of Kentucky, and author of Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana.

Jack Norton
Jack Norton is assistant professor of criminal justice at Governors State University.

Mariam Barghouti
Mariam Barghouti is a journalist and researcher based in Ramallah. She was the Senior Palestine correspondent for Mondoweiss and has been covering the region since 2011. She also worked as an independent consultant for monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian projects in the ...

Nevin Kallepalli
Nevin Kallepalli is a UC Berkeley Local Reporting Fellow based in Northern California. His writing has covered religious nationalism in the U.S., Palestine, India, and Kashmir. 

Amber Hollibaugh
Amber Hollibaugh (1946–2023) was a writer, filmmaker, activist, and organizer.

Lisa Duggan
Lisa Duggan is an activist, journalist, and professor of gender and sexuality studies at NYU. She is author of a number of books, most recently Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed. 

Sophie Hoss
Sophie Hoss is currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing and literature from Stony Brook University. She was a finalist for the 2023 MAYDAY Poetry Prize, and her fiction and poetry have appeared in BOMB, The LA Review, Wigleaf, and elsewhere. She has a small dog named Elmo ...