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Gianpaolo Baiocchi

is an ethnographer interested in questions of politics and culture, critical social theory, and cities.  He is associate professor of individualized studies and sociology at NYU, where he directs the Urban Democracy Lab. He has written widely on Brazil, and more recently, on the United States   His last monograph, co-authored with Ernesto Ganuza, is Popular Democracy […]

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Harris Beider

is Professor in Community Cohesion at Coventry University, UK, and Visiting Professor in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He writes in a personal capacity.

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Steven Klein

is a political theorist who is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. He writes and teaches about democracy, the welfare state, and European political thought.

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Jake Levine

is an attorney in Los Angeles. He served as a climate aide to President Obama and as Senior Counsel to the California Senate Select Committee on Climate Change.

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Noam Sheizaf

Noam Sheizaf, a Tel Aviv–based journalist, was the founding editor of +972 Magazine. He covers the Israeli political system and the conflict; his work has been published in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Nation, Haaretz, and other publications.

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Myesha K. Braden

is Acting Director for the Criminal Justice Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. She is also the former Senior Policy Advisor to the Office of National Drug Control Policy and the White House Domestic Policy Council, as well as a former Trial Attorney and Legislative and Policy Counsel for the Civil Rights Division.

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Dalia Hatuqa

is an independent journalist based in Washington, D.C. and the West Bank. She has been published in The Economist, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, and elsewhere, and her radio work and commentary have aired on NPR, PRI’s The World, the BBC, and Monocle 24.

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Nushin Rashidian

is the co-founder of the non-partisan news organization Cannabis Wire, and the co-author of the book A New Leaf: The End of Cannabis Prohibition (The New Press, 2014). She is also a research fellow on the Platforms and Publishers project at Columbia Journalism School’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism. She can be followed @nushinrashidian.

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