David Wilson is Professor of Social and Cultural Geography and a member of the unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is an internationally recognized, interdisciplinary scholar and his work has contributed significantly to numerous fields including geography, sociology, urban and regional planning, and political science. Wilson has been a visiting scholar at universities in China, Germany, and Canada.
Ariella Azoulay is an author, art curator, filmmaker, and theorist of photography and visual culture. She is Professor of Modern Culture and Media and the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University. Before arriving at Brown, she was Gladstein Visiting Professor at the Human Rights Center of the University of Connecticut and Leverhulme Research Professor at Durham University.
Frances Myrna Kamm is Henry Rutgers University Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University. She is also Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. At New York University, Kamm is Professor Emerita in the Department of Philosophy. Her research examines ethical theory and practical ethics.
Stephanie Inglis is a linguist who has been a professor at Cape Breton University since 1986. She was integral in creating the first Native Studies courses in the university and has had a hand in the successful integration of Indigenous knowledge into curricula for the last three decades.
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco was an Italian Canada author, editor, and priest. He attended the University of Toronto, graduating with the B.A. in 1973 and a B.Ed. in 1976. A trip to Italy in the 1970s inspired him to become a writer. He published his first book of poetry, We are the Light Turning, in 1975. In Toronto, Di Cicco worked as an editor with Books in Canada and later with Waves, Descant and Poetry Toronto. He edited Roman Candles (1978), an anthology of Italian Canadian poets.
Akram Zaatari is a Lebanese filmmaker, photographer, archival artist and curator.
Mike Otsuka is a left-libertarian political philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Prior to this, he taught philosophy at University College London, University of California LA, Yale, and University of Colorado, Boulder. He published the book Libertarianism without Inequality in 2003, and has written dozens of academic articles.
Fredy Armando Peccerelli Monterroso is an internationally renowned forensic anthropologist, human rights activist, and founding member of the Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala (FAFG). After returning to Guatemala in 1995, he dedicated his life to upholding human rights and dignity through the use of forensic sciences.
Susan Stryker is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. She is a historian, writer, educator, artist, documentary filmmaker, and human rights activist.
