Formerly a reporter for the Verge and Bloomberg News, Stroud writes about law enforcement and the companies That sell products to police and prisons. His work has also appeared in the Atlantic and Politico, among other publications.

Susan Stryker is an historian and award-winning author, editor, and filmmaker whose credits include the Emmy-winning documentary Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria and the two-volume Transgender Studies Reader. She is the recipient of Yale University’s 2015 Michael J. Brudner Memorial Prize and the City University of New York’s Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies’ 2009 David Kessler Award for her contributions to the field of LGBT Studies.

William Sturkey is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. His book Hattiesburg won the Zocalo Book Prize, and his work has been featured in The New York Times, on NBC News, and elsewhere.

Matt Sullivan is an award-winning journalist who has worked for Esquire, The New York Times, the Atlantic, The Guardian and, most recently, as Managing Editor of Bleacher Report.

Ericka Suzanne, a graduate of Spelman College, has spent more than a decade working in the arts. The daughter of two leading members of the Black Panther Party, Elaine Brown and Raymond Masai Hewitt, Ericka is under contract as co-executive producer with Laurence Fishburne for Party Girls, a Freeform network show based on her childhood.

Taylor is the author of Scripture People: Salafi Muslims in Evangelical Christians’ America (Cambridge University Press, August 2023). He is a seminary-trained, mainline Protestant who studied American religion and Muslim-Christian relations at a Catholic University and is currently a scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies (Baltimore) where he specializes in translating academic knowledge into accessible forms for public and adult-learner audiences. He has contributed to HuffPost, The Baltimore Sun, and Religion Dispatches.

Benjamin Taylor is the author of several novels, a short biography of Proust, and two memoirs, including “Here We Are” about his long friendship with Philip Roth.

Katie Taylor set up the Latte Lounge and its accompanying Facebook members group to offer the kind of midlife community she so desperately needed in her mid-40s - comprising not only peers but also an incredible network of experts and health professionals - and has gone on to become a leading voice in the nationwide conversation around midlife and menopause. As well as appearing regularly on national media, Katie also hosts numerous workshops, including for Downing Street staff.

Established in 1872, The Boston Globe is Boston and New England’s leading source for breaking news and analysis, with coverage from across the world. The Boston Globe has been awarded 26 Pulitzer Prizes throughout its history.

June Thomas has been a writer, editor, and podcaster at Slate since 1997. She was the founding editor of Outward, Slate's LGBTQ section, and has hosted several podcasts, including The Waves and Working.

An ethnographer and arts journalist, Thornton has contributed to Artforum, The New Yorker, and The Economist, among other publications.

Noa Tishby is an Israeli actress, producer, and activist. She starred on the hit Israeli television show Ramat Aviv Gimmel, and created a pathway for Israeli content to be sold into the United States entertainment industry. An unofficial ambassador for the State of Israel, Tishby helped found “Act for Israel,” the first online rapid-response advocacy group devoted to correcting misinformation about Israel and the Middle East.

Tourmaline is an artist, activist, writer, and filmmaker whose work is dedicated to aestheticizing Black trans survival, beauty, and liberation. In addition to her prison abolition, Black liberation, and trans rights activism, she was featured in the Time 100 list in 2020, has directed several award-winning films and advertising campaigns, and has had her artwork acquired by MoMA, The Whitney, and The Tate.

Quincy Troupe is an awarding-winning author of ten volumes of poetry, three children’s books, and six non-fiction works.

Steven Ujifusa is the author of Barons of the Sea, an LA Times bestseller, and A Man and His Ship, chosen by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best nonfiction books of 2012. He received his B.A. in History from Harvard College and his Master’s in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania.

Begoña Gómez Urzaiz is a freelance journalist who lives in Barcelona. She writes an opinion column in La Vanguardia and collaborates regularly in El País, Radio Primavera Sound and other media. She teaches of Literary Journalism in the Master’s program at the UAB. Las abandonadoras (Destino) is her first book.

Vicki Valosik is a writer, a competitive synchronized swimmer, and a faculty member at Georgetown University, where she teaches graduate-level writing courses. Her work has been published in The Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, American Scholar, Slate, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a book on the history of women’s swimming and aquatic performance, from vaudeville mermaids to Olympic synchronized swimming.

Marga Vicedo is a professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Nature and Nurture of Love (University of Chicago Press), an acclaimed book about the maternal instinct and attachment parenting, and is currently writing about the history of the autism diagnosis.

Senior Vice President and Creative Director of Jujamcyn Theaters, and Artistic Director of Encores!, Viertel has worked on such acclaimed shows as Jersey Boys, Fela!, and The Book Of Mormon. He also teaches at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

With dual degrees in film and theology, Sara Vladic has enjoyed a lifetime of storytelling at the highest level. In addition to the success of the bestseller INDIANAPOLIS, co-written with Lynn Vincent, Vladic worked as a feature film writer at 20th Century Fox and on the sets of blockbuster movies, including The Sixth Sense.

U.S. Army Colonel Tom Vossler (retired) taught military history, strategy, and leadership at the U.S. Army War College and is a former director of the U.S. Army Military History Institute at Carlisle Barracks, PA. He has published several books on the battles of Gettysburg and Antietam, and has acted as a consultant to the History Channel and other media companies, advising them on Civil War history.With Jeffrey D. McCausland, he is the author of the forthcoming book Battle Tested.

Lizzie Wade is an award-winning journalist and correspondent for Science, one of the world’s most prestigious scientific journals, where she covers archaeology, anthropology, and Latin America for the magazine’s print and online news sections. Her work has also appeared in Wired, The Atlantic, Slate, The New York Times, Aeon, Smithsonian, Archaeology, and California Sunday, among other publications.

A globally recognized voice in education, Tony Wagner is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Learning Policy Institute; prior to this appointment, Tony held a variety of positions at Harvard University for more than twenty years, including four years as an Expert in Residence at the Harvard Innovation Lab. Tony’s influential and widely read books on schools and education include The Global Achievement Gap and Creating Innovators.

The current managing editor of Reason magazine, Walker has also written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Salon, The New Republic, L.A. Weekly, and National Review.

Named by House leadership as the Historian of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010, Wasniewski is the fourth person to serve in the role. He previously served nearly a decade in the House Clerk’s Office of History and Preservation.

Ali Watkins is a reporter on Metro desk at The New York Times, where she covers crime and law enforcement in New York City. Previously, she covered national security in Washington for The Times, BuzzFeed and McClatchy Newspapers, where she was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in national reporting for coverage of the Senate's report on the C.I.A.'s post-9/11 torture program.

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Jesse Wegman joined the editorial board of the New York Times in 2013, and has since written close to 600 signed and unsigned editorials on the Supreme Court, politics, law, and justice. He was previously a senior editor at The Daily Beast and Newsweek, a legal news editor at Reuters, and the managing editor of The New York Observer.

Genevieve West is a professor and chair of the English, Speech, and Foreign Languages department at Texas Women’s University. She is the editor of Zora Neale Hurston’s Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance (Amistad, 2020) and co-editor, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of Hurston’s forthcoming collected essays.

Geoffrey Wheatcroft is a journalist and author. In 1975, he joined the weekly Spectator as Assistant Editor, and from 1977 to 1981 was Literary Editor as well as columnist and reporter. He left to work freelance, to report from South Africa, and to write his first book, The Randlords. In 1985-6 he edited the ‘Londoner’s Diary’ of the Evening Standard, whose opera critic he subsequently became.

After several years as a columnist with the Sunday Telegraph and the Daily Express he is now once more freelance, writing regularly for the Guardian, the New Statesman, and the TLS in London, as well as the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, Boston Globe, Atlantic Monthly and Harper’s in America. He was formerly a Contributing Editor to the New Republic, and for some years he broadcast as the British correspondent for Radio Ireland in Dublin.

He was born in London, the son of an economist and a social worker, and educated at University College School in Hampstead and as a Scholar of New College, Oxford, where he read Modern History.

White is Challis Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Sydney specialising in African American history. His last book, Prince of Darkness (2015) won the Society of the Historians of the Early American Republic’s Best Book Prize and the New York Society’s New York City Award.

A graduate of Yale and the University of Virginia School of Law, Senator Whitehouse (D-RI) was nominated by President Bill Clinton to be Rhode Island’s US Attorney in 1994. Her served as Rhode Island’s US Attorney until 1998, when he became State Attorney General. He was elected to the United States Senate in 2007.

Rusty Williams is the author of the forthcoming book Deadly Dallas: A History of Unfortunate Incidents and Grisly Fatalities (The History Press, 2021); as well as Red River Bridge War: A Texas-Oklahoma Border Battle (Texas A&M Press, 2016), which won the Oklahoma Book Award and was named 2016's Outstanding Book on Oklahoma History by the Oklahoma Historical Society; My Old Confederate Home: A Respectable Place for Civil War Veterans (University Press of Kentucky, 2011); and Historic Photos of Dallas in the 50s, 60s, and 70s (Turner, 2010). Rusty regularly speaks to historical societies, book groups, and cultural gatherings; and contributes articles to historical magazines and journals.

Jessie Williams is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on global current affairs, humanitarian issues, women’s rights, migration, culture, and politics—with the aim of exploring the human stories behind the headlines.

She has worked on a diverse array of stories which have taken her around the world, from walking through minefields in Lebanon, to visiting refugee camps in Iraq, covering the 2023 elections in Turkey, shadowing a psychologist helping displaced children in Armenia, and speaking to women fleeing war and domestic abuse in Ukraine. Closer to home, she’s investigated the UK’s asylum-seeker housing and treatment of migrant survivors of domestic abuse, and exposed an elite French university’s #MeToo reckoning.  

Her work has been published in TIME Magazine, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Foreign Policy, BBC News, Al Jazeera, The i Paper, The Telegraph, VICE World News, openDemocracy, Huck Magazine, The New Arab, and others.

In 2021 she was shortlisted for the British Journalism Awards and in 2022 she was a winner of MHP Mischief's 30 To Watch Young Journalist Award in the international affairs category. In 2019 she was longlisted for Spread The Word’s London Short Story Prize.

Jessie has a First Class degree in Journalism from City, University of London. She is based in London.

Elizabeth Winder is a poet and graduate of the College of William and Mary, with an MFA in creative writing from George Mason University. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Review, Antioch Review, and American Letters, among other publications. She is the author of Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953 (HarperCollins) and Marilyn in Manhattan: Her Year of Joy (Flatiron Books).

Keely Winstone is a journalist, dramatist and documentary film-maker specialising in recent history.

Her writing has appeared in the Financial Times, the Guardian, and the Independent, and her plays include Mrs Assad and Me, about the British wife of the Syrian President (Royal Court, Orange Tree) and The Sex Lives of Others, an Edinburgh Fringe sell-out (‘sharp and well-observed’ - the Scotsman). Her historical films cover topics including the British Army’s Brigade of Gurkhas’ attempts to climb Everest, the D-Day landings (My D-Day, Amazon Prime), and Mountbatten (Mountbatten: Hero or Villain?, Channel 5).

Having worked as a Senior Broadcast Journalist for BBC Sport, a digital designer at The Sunday Times, page artist on Trinity Mirror’s The New Day, sub editor at the Morning Star and layout sub editor at the Guardian, Suzanne was approached in 2017 by the Guardian’s head of sport to become the first person to write regularly on women’s football for a national newspaper. Having written for the Morning Star and various fanzines, she began what was originally a weekly column with the Guardian in June 2017. She now writes for the Guardian and Observer full time, covering domestic and international women’s football. Her work has appeared across footballing media in the past, including the likes of FourFourTwo and The Guardian Football Weekly Podcast, where she is a regular contributor on women’s football.

A longtime food and travel journalist, Wulfhart writes the “Carry-On” column for the New York Times. Her work has also been published in Travel + Leisure, Bon Appétit, Condé Nast Traveler, the Wall Street Journal Magazine, and elsewhere.

Mitch Yockelson is a professor of military history and the chief historian for the United States World War One Centennial Commission. He leads the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Archival Recovery Program and investigates the theft of historical documents. He has taught at the United States Naval Academy and is currently a professor in Norwich University (Northfield, VT) Military History master’s program. He is the author of five books and has written numerous book reviews and articles published in professional journals, popular magazines and newspapers including The Washington Post and The New York Times. He lectures internationally as one of the foremost authorities on military history and has served as an on-screen consultant to the History Channel, PBS, and the Pentagon Channel.

A Washington Post reporter since 2005, Zak has covered subjects ranging from from the Vanity Fair Oscar party to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to the military drawdown in Iraq. He’s previously written for Entertainment Weekly and for the Buffalo News in his hometown of Buffalo, New York.

Susan Zalkind is an independent journalist and writer based in Boston, MA. She covers courts and crime, breaks news and writes investigative features for The Guardian, The Daily Beast, and VICE and has appeared on CNN, NBC, MSNBC, BBC, and is a regular guest on NECN’s The Take. Her reporting has also been featured on This American Life and Boston magazine and was listed as one of the best stories of the year by Longform.org and Longreads.

Born in Iran and raised as a member of the Baha’i faith, Payam Zamani is the founder, chairman, and CEO of One Planet, a socially responsible hybrid tech firm that owns and operates a suite of online technology and media businesses and is an early stage investor. He is also the Founder and the Editor-in-Chief of BahaiTeachings.org.

Kristal Brent Zook is an award-winning journalist and author of four books including The Girl in the Yellow Poncho, a coming-of-age story about being biracial in America, searching for her missing white father, and finding one’s authentic identity. A former contributor to the Washington Post and ESSENCE, her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, LIFE, and The Guardian among others. The Girl in the Yellow Poncho has been praised in Vanity Fair, PEOPLE, Ms., The Root, and Kirkus. Dr. Zook is a tenured journalism at Hofstra University in New York. She has appeared on outlets such as CNN, MSNBC, C-Span, MTV, Fox, BET, PBS, and TV-One and NPR.

Jocelyn C. Zuckerman is a writer and journalist whose work has appeared in Fast Company, The American Prospect, the New York Times Magazine, and other publications. She served as deputy editor at Gourmet, articles editor at OnEarth, and executive editor at both Whole Living and Modern Farmer magazines. An honors graduate of Columbia University's Journalism School, she is the recipient of a James Beard Award for feature writing and numerous fellowships, including an Alicia Patterson Fellowship in support of her research on palm oil. She is based in Brooklyn, NY.