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David I. Backer
David I. Backer is an associate professor of education policy at Seton Hall University whose research focuses on ideology and finance. He can be found @schooldaves across social media and his new book is As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America’s Schools (The ...

Wes Enzinna
Wes Enzinna is The Baffler’s deputy editor. Previously, he worked as a senior editor at Harper’s magazine and a senior writer at Mother Jones. His longform reportage and essays have appeared on the covers of The New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, New York, and ...

Ali Winston
Ali Winston is an independent reporter covering criminal justice, privacy, and extremism. He writes for the Guardian, Wired, and Rolling Stone among other publications and has reported documentaries for BBC Panorama and PBS Frontline. Ali is the coauthor of The Riders ...

Tisya Mavuram
Tisya Mavuram is a writer based in New York. She has written for The Nation, The American Prospect, MIT Technology Review and other publications.

Zhang Yueran
Zhang Yueran is the award-winning author of several novels written in Chinese, including Cocoon, which won the Best Asian Novel of the Prix Transfuge in 2019, and Women, Seated. She lives in Beijing.

Matthew Zapruder
Matthew Zapruder is the author of the poetry collections I Love Hearing Your Dreams (Scribner 2024), and How to Continue (The Economy Press, 2025). He teaches in the MFA in creative writing at Saint Mary’s College of California.

Jenny Xie
Jenny Xie the author of The Rupture Tense and Eye Level, finalists for the National Book Award. She teaches at Bard College and lives in New York City.

Jess Row
Jess Row is the author of Storyknife, a new collection of short stories to be published by Ecco in summer 2026. His other books include the novels Your Face in Mine and The New Earth and the essay collection White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American ...

Michael Oswell
Michael Oswell is a graphic designer based in the Schengen Area.