Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison, known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist and editor. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) bro鈥�
bell hooks (born Gloria Jean Watkins) was an African-American author, feminist, and social activist. Her writing focused on the interconnectivity of race, class, and gender and their ability to produc鈥�
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger 鈥� the co-editor of and the author of the YA graphic novel In Real Life, the nonfiction business book 滨苍蹿辞谤尘补迟颈鈥�
Hochschild was born in New York City. As a college student, he spent a summer working on an anti-government newspaper in South Africa and subsequently worked briefly as a civil rights worker in Missis鈥�
Ray Kurzweil is a world class inventor, thinker, and futurist, with a thirty-five-year track record of accurate predictions. He has been a leading developer in artificial intelligence for 61 years 鈥� l鈥�
Anne Elizabeth Applebaum is a Polish-American journalist and writer. She has written extensively about Marxism鈥揕eninism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. She has work鈥�
Miranda July (born February 15, 1974) is a performance artist, musician, writer, actress and film director. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California, after having lived for many years in Portl鈥�
Michael J. Sandel is an American political philosopher who lives in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught si鈥�
Marta Russell (December 20, 1951 鈥� December 15, 2013) was an American writer and disability rights activist. Her book, Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract published in 1998 by C鈥�
Timothy Snyder is Housum Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1997, where he w鈥�
Thomas Piketty (French: [t蓴ma pik蓻ti]; born May 7, 1971) is a French economist who works on wealth and income inequality. He is the director of studies at the 脡cole des hautes 茅tudes en sciences socia鈥�
Ruth Ben-Ghiat is an internationally acclaimed historian, speaker, and political commentator for the Atlantic, CNN, the Washington Post, and other publications. She is a professor of history and Itali鈥�
Sathnam Sanghera was born to Punjabi parents in the West Midlands in 1976, attended Wolverhampton Grammar School and graduated from Christ鈥檚 College, Cambridge with a first class degree in English Lan鈥�
McKay Coppins is a staff writer at The Atlantic where he covers politics, religion, and national affairs. He is the author of The Wilderness, a book about the battle for the future of the Republican P鈥�
Rebecca Giblin is a professor at Melbourne Law School, where she researches at the intersection of law and culture. Her three books take new lenses to cultural challenges, using them to disentangle se鈥�
Anna Clark is a journalist in Detroit and the author of "The Poisoned City: Flint鈥檚 Water and the American Urban Tragedy." It is the winner of the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism, a Michigan Notable鈥�
David Dayen is a journalist who writes about economics and finance. He is the author of Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud, winner of the Stud鈥�
Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist. He was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a teenager and now lives in the United States. The start of his journalism career coincided with t鈥�
Mike Hixenbaugh is a senior investigative reporter for NBC News, co-creator of the "Southlake" and "Grapevine" podcasts, and author of "They Came for the Schools: One Town鈥檚 Fight Over Race and Identi鈥�
