Jamira Burley Jamira Burley
Jamira Burley is the Executive Director of the City of Philadelphia Commission on Youth.
Jan 15, 2013
Alexander F. Roehrkasse Alexander F. Roehrkasse
Alexander F. Roehrkasse is a doctoral student in the sociology department at UC Berkeley, and a former researcher at Harvard Business School. His current research focuses on the role of debtors' prisons in the historical development of credit markets, and on corruption in contemporary finance. He is a co-author of Swapping our Future: How Students and Taxpayers are Funding Risky UC Borrowing and Wall Street Profits.
Jan 14, 2013
Lori Bezahler Lori Bezahler
Lori Bezahler is president of the Edward W Hazen Foundation, dedicated to supporting organizing and leadership of young people and communities of color in dismantling structural inequity based on race and class. The Foundation's programs focus primarily on educational equity, but are also directed at juvenile justice, immigration reform, gender justice, and other public policy concerns critical to young people.
Jan 11, 2013
George Joseph George Joseph
George Joseph is a reporter, focusing on education and labor issues in New York City. He currently an undergraduate at Columbia University, concentrating in Education and Sociology. Follow him on Twitter @georgejoseph94.
Jan 11, 2013
Flint Taylor Flint Taylor
Flint Taylor is one of the lawyers for a number of men tortured by Chicago police under Commander Jon Burge, and a founding partner of the People's Law Office, a civil rights law firm whose attorneys have been fighting for victims of police torture, brutality, wrongful convictions, false arrest and other government abuses for over 40 years. For more information about the People's Law Office and its work visit http://peopleslawoffice.com.
Jan 11, 2013
Candice Bernd Candice Bernd
Candice Bernd is a reporter with Campus Progress. Follow her on Twitter @CandiceBernd.
Jan 11, 2013
Hari Kunzru Hari Kunzru
Hari Kunzru is a British novelist and journalist known for daring works of fiction exploring themes of today’s globalized world. His novels include The Impressionist, My Revolutions and Gods Without Men.
Jan 9, 2013
Staceyann Chin Staceyann Chin
Staceyann Chin is a spoken-word artist, performer, poet and LGBT rights activist widely known as a co-writer and performer in the Tony Award–winning Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam. Her books include The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir.
Jan 9, 2013
Billy Bragg Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg is a British singer/songwriter who fuses folk, punk and personal storytelling. His records include Talking With the Taxman About Poetry, William Bloke and a series of records with Wilco called Mermaid Avenue featuring new Woody Guthrie songs. Bragg is the founder of Jail Guitar Doors UK.
Jan 9, 2013
Yetta Kurland Yetta Kurland
Yetta Kurland is a civil rights attorney, educator, small-business owner and community activist. She is also the host of Yetta Kurland LIVE!, a popular weekly progressive talk-radio show on WWRL 1600 AM that focuses on civil rights and social justice issues in New York City.
Jan 9, 2013