Annelle Sheline is a Research Fellow in the Middle East program at the Quincy Institute and an expert on religious and political authority in the Middle East and North Africa.

Lynn Parramore is an author and cultural theorist

Rebecca Vallas is a Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation

Maximilian Alvarez is editor-in-chief of The Real News Network

Professor of Spanish, Latin American Literature & International Studies, Journalist & Author, "The Wild Frontier"

Max Blumenthal is an author & editor of The Grayzone

Sarah Lazare is web editor for In These Times, and co-author of the new novel "Testimony". 

Rebecca Vallas is a Senior Fellow with The Century Foundation and Host of Off-Kilter

Lynn Parramore is an author and cultural critic

Shir Hever is an author, journalist, and board member of Jewish Voice for Peace in the Middle East

Hagai El-Ad is Executive Director of B'Tselem

Ahmed Abu Artema is a Palestinian journalist & activist based in Gaza 

Ali Abunimah is a Palestinian American journalist

Merith Basey is the Executive Director for Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, North America 

Daniel Marans is a Political Reporter for HuffPost

Nancy J. Altman, a lawyer, is the author of The Battle for Social Security and a co-author, with Eric R. Kingson, of Social Security Works!. She co-founded Social Security Works in 2010. 

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Ben Burgis is a philosophy professor and the author of Give Them An Argument: Logic for the Left . He is host of the podcast Give Them An Argument

Kymone Freeman is an activist, artist, and co-founder, We Act Radio

Marcela Mulholland is the political director for Data for Progress

Ross Benes is the award-winning author of three books. He has written for Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Lincoln Journal Star, Nation, Omaha World-Herald, Rolling Stone, Wall Street Journal, and more. A native of Brainard, Nebraska, he now cheers on the Huskers from New York.

Frank Pasquale is an expert on the law of artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms, and machine learning. He is an internationally recognized and prolific scholar whose work has addressed the regulation of technology in several contexts.

Pepe Escobar is the roving correspondent for Asia Times/Hong Kong, an analyst for Consortium News, and Strategic Culture in Moscow.

Eagan Kemp, health care policy advocate for Public Citizen

Dr. Michelle Evelyn Morse is an American internist. She is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital and co-founded EqualHealth and Social Medicine Consortium. In 2021, Morse was named the first Chief Medical Officer of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Biologist, author, and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. writes about climate change, ecology, and the links between human health and the environment. Steingraber’s highly acclaimed book, Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment was the first to bring together data on toxic releases with data from U.S. cancer registries and was adapted for the screen in 2010. As both book and documentary film, Living Downstream has won praise from international media

Diane Archer is founder and president of Just Care USA, an independent digital hub covering health and financial issues facing boomers and their families and promoting policy solutions. She is the past board chair of Consumer Reports and serves on the Brown University School of Public Health Advisory Board. Ms. Archer began her career in health advocacy in 1989 as founder and president of the Medicare Rights Center, a national organization dedicated to ensuring that older and disabled Americans get the health care they need. She served as director, Health Care for All Project, Institute for America’s Future, between 2005 and 2010.

Nancy Altman is President of Social Security Works and Author of the forthcoming book "Social Security Works for Everyone" 

Danny Sjursen is a retired U.S. Army Major, and a historian & author

Stephen Miles is Executive Director of Win Without War

Keri Leigh Merritt is a historian and writer in Atlanta, Georgia who tackles issues of inequality and poverty in America. Her research focuses on race and class in U.S. history. She is working on a new documentary about the Civil War.

Nicole Aschoff is on the editorial board at Jacobin. She is the author of The Smartphone Society: Technology, Power, and Resistance in the New Gilded Age and The New Prophets of Capital.

Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian and journalist. Prashad is the author of thirty books, including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. He is the Chief Correspondent for Globetrotter and a Columnist for Frontline (India). He is the Chief Editor of LeftWord Books (New Delhi). He has appeared in two films – Shadow World (2016) and Two Meetings (2017).

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is a physician, epidemiologist, progressive activist, educator, author, speaker, and podcast host. He is the Chair of Southpaw Michigan and a Political Contributor at CNN. His book, Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic (Abrams Press), diagnoses our country’s epidemic of insecurity and the empathy politics we will need to treat it, and his forthcoming book Medicare for All: A Citizen’s Guide (Oxford University Press, 2021) co-authored with Dr. Micah Johnson, offers a no nonsense guide to the policy. He is the host of “America Dissected,” a podcast by Crooked Media, which goes beyond the headlines to explore what really matters for our health. He is the DeRoy Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan and a Scholar-in-Residence at Wayne State University and American University, where he teaches at the intersection between public health, public policy, and politics.

Keri Leigh Merritt is a historian and writer in Atlanta, Georgia who tackles issues of inequality and poverty in America. Her research focuses on race and class in U.S. history. She is working on a new documentary about the Civil War.

Nicole Aschoff is on the editorial board at Jacobin. She is the author of The Smartphone Society: Technology, Power, and Resistance in the New Gilded Age and The New Prophets of Capital.

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Prof. Richard Wolff

Matt Taibbi is an author, podcaster and journalist

Jocelyn Macurdy Keatts is Washington Correspondent for act.tv and co-host of "Solidarity Live"

Linda Benesch is Communications Director for Social Security Works

John Nichols is an author and National Affairs Correspondent for The Nation 

Paul Farmer, M.D., Ph.D., is Kolokotrones University Professor and chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and Co-founder and chief strategist of Partners In Health. Farmer and his colleagues have pioneered novel, community-based treatment strategies that demonstrate the delivery of high-quality health care in resource-poor settings. He has written extensively on health, human rights, and the consequences of social inequality. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, from which he was the recipient of the 2018 Public Welfare Medal.

He has authored multiple books, including: In the Company of the Poor: Conversations with Dr. Paul Farmer and Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez, Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction, and To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation. His most recent book will be released in November 2020: Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History.

Lynn Parramore is a cultural historian and author

Sarah Miller is the Executive Director of the American Economic Liberties Project. Previously, she served as the Deputy Director of the Open Markets Institute, which was credited by Rolling Stone as “the driving force behind the resurgence in public understanding and desire for action around antitrust and monopolies.” She is also Co-Chair of Freedom From Facebook, a coalition of progressive groups that succeeded in bringing the concept of breaking up Facebook into the mainstream.