Alexandria Shaner  

Alexandria Shaner is sailor, writer, organizer, and street medic. She has been involved in community organizing, media, and education for over 20 years, and is currently an editor at ZNetwork.org and a writer for Extinction Rebellion. She is active with Caracol: the Degrowth Ecosocialist Caucus of DSA, Food Not Bombs, and the Women's Rights and Empowerment Network.

Arash Kolahi  

Arash Kolahi is a left economist, social theorist & consultant. He has over 15 years of experience in economic & financial analysis, consulting & research. His primary areas of interest include economic theory, computer science, behavioral economics, human nature, psychology & sociology. Arash has consulted numerous enterprises on workplace culture, organizational decision-making, incentive structures, data analytics, risk management, customer experience, sustainability, diversity, equity & inclusion.

Bill Fletcher Jr.  

Bill Fletcher Jr. has been an activist since his teen years. Upon graduating from college he went to work as a welder in a shipyard, thereby entering the labor movement. Over the years he has been active in workplace and community struggles as well as electoral campaigns. He has worked for several labor unions in addition to serving as a senior staffperson in the national AFL-CIO. Fletcher is the former president of TransAfrica Forum; a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies; in the leadership of several other projects; and the author of numerous books and articles.

Cynthia Peters  

Cynthia Peters is a longtime Boston-based community organizer in housing justice and anti-war efforts. She is an editor and writer, whose essays have been published in ZNet, Dollars and Sense, various books, and other media outlets. She edits The Change Agent, an online social justice magazine for immigrant and other adult learners.

Don Rojas  

Don Rojas is a political activist/organizer and veteran journalist who was once the press secretary to the late Prime Minister Maurice Bishop of Grenada and the general manager of WBAI (Pacifica Radio Network)in New York. Until recently, he was the Director of Communications and International Relations for the Institute of the Black World 21st Century and the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) administrator.

Evan Henshaw-Plath  

Evan is an activist and technologist passionate about building commons-based social media apps that prioritize equity and sustainability. With experience in developing platforms like Twitter, he has explored innovative digital spaces through projects like Planetary on Scuttlebutt and nos.social on Nostr.

Frances Kunreuther  

Frances was the founder and for two decades one of the leaders of the Building Movement Project, which supports and conducts research on movement building organizations. She has written dozens of reports/articles and is author of From the Ground Up: Grassroots Organizations Making Social Change (Cornell, 2006) and Working Across Generations: Defining the Future of Nonprofit Leadership (Jossey Bass, 2009). In the 1990s, Frances headed the Hetrick-Martin Institute for LBGT youth.

Jeremy Brecher  

Jeremy Brecher is a historian, documentary filmmaker, activist, author of books on labor and social movements, and co-founder of Labor Network for Sustainability. His work has centered on understanding and nurturing the process he characterizes as “common preservation,” in which individuals and groups shift from futile and/or self-destructive efforts at self-preservation to strategies of collective action to promote their mutual wellbeing.

Leslie Cagan  

Leslie Cagan has worked in peace and justice movements for more than 60 years. From the Vietnam war to racism at home, nuclear disarmament to lesbian/gay liberation, Palestinian and Cuba solidarity, women’s liberation to climate justice she’s been a central organizer in many struggles. Her coalition-building and organizing skills have mobilized millions of people in many of the nation’s largest demonstrations and countless other public protests. Her writings appear in 10 anthologies and in scores of print and online outlets.

Michael Albert  

Michael Albert's political involvements have ranged from local, regional, and national organizing projects and campaigns to co-founding South End Press, Z Magazine, the Z Media Institute, and ZNet, and to working on all these projects, writing for various publications and publishers, giving public talks, etc. He is the co-author of the post capitalist vision, participatory economics and is currently host of the podcast RevolutionZ.

Rafael Návar 

Rafael Návar is a political organizer from East Los Angeles, California, with over two decades of experience leading successful grassroots and national campaigns. From 2019-2020, Návar served as the California State Director for Senator Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign. From 2012 to 2019, Návar served as the National Political Director for the Communication Workers of America (CWA). He also worked as a community organizer with Dolores Mission/Proyecto Pastoral and the Bus Riders Union which led him to join SEIU Local 99 as Political Director in 2006.  Návar is also a co-founder of Mijente and has been a member of their leadership council since its inception in 2015. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Dream Defenders and Wildfire, and has served on the Board of the National Committee of the Working Families Party (2014-2019) and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (2014-2019).
 

Sergio Hyland 

Sergio Hyland is the Criminal Justice Organizer for the Working Families Party in Philadelphia. He worked as the Abolitionist Law Center's parole justice advocate, and he is a writer, speaker, and political organizer in Philadelphia. He spent nearly 21 years in state prison – over five of those years in solitary confinement. During his time in prison, he was mentored by former Black Panther member, Russell Maroon Shoatz.