Kali Akuno is an organizer, educator, and writer for human rights and social justice. He is the former Co-Director of the US Human Rights Network. Kali also served as the Executive Director of the Peoples’ Hurricane Relief Fund (PHRF) based in New Orleans, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. He was also a co-founder of the School of Social Justice and Community Development (SSJCD), a public school serving the academic needs of low-income African American and Latino communities in Oakland, California. Kali is the co-editor of Jackson Rising: the Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, MS, and the author of numerous articles and pamphlets including the “Jackson-Kush Plan: the Struggle for Black Self-Determination and Economic Democracy”, “Until We Win: Black Labor and Liberation in the Disposable Era”, “Operation Ghetto Storm: Every 28 Hours report” and “Let Your Motto Be Resistance: A Handbook on Organizing New Afrikan and Oppressed Communities for Self-Defense”. kaliakuno@gmail.com
Dario Azzellini is a political scientist, sociologist, and filmmaker. He is a visiting fellow at the ILR School, Cornell University, His studies focus on labor, self-management, sustainability and just transition, social transformation, and global political economy, with a special focus on Latin America and Europe. He authored Communes and Workers’ Control in Venezuela: Building 21st Century Socialism from Below (Brill 2017), co-authored Commoning Labor and Democracy at Work: When Workers Take Over (with Marcelo Vieta, forthcoming), and co-edited the Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work (2023). More information is available on his personal website at: www. azzellini.net
Mat Callahan is a musician and author originally from San Francisco. He is also the Managing Editor of Socialism and Democracy with Suren Moodliar. He is the author of five books, most recently, The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco 1965-75 and A Critical Guide to Intellectual Property. His most recent musical projects include Songs of Freedom-the James Connolly Songbook, another songbook/history, Working Class Heroes, and Songs of Slavery and Emancipation. An album of Callahan’s own compositions, It Is Right To Rebel, was released in 2022. Callahan is the editor of the forthcoming: Bombs Bursting in Air: Music and the State (Univer- sity Press of Mississippi 2025). For more information: http:// matcallahan.com/
Felipe Costa Lima is PhD Researcher in International Law at the Uni- versity of Strasbourg (UNISTRA), France, and in International Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas), Brazil (CAPES scholarship). He has a master’s degree (MSc) in Public International Law (Fundamental Rights) from the UNISTRA (Eiffel Scholarship) (2018) and a Master’s Degree (MSc) in International Relations from the PUC Minas (2017). He has an M. Phil in International Politics from the University Damásio de Jesus, Brazil (2016) and a bachelor’s degree in law from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil (2012). His research focuses on Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, Critical Theories, Decolonial Studies, Neoliberalism and Human Rights, all with an emphasis on the Global South. felipecostalimas@gmail.com
David Higgins is a specialist in 20th century American history and lit- erature with a focus on science fiction and popular culture. His research explores imperial fantasy during the Cold War period and beyond. David also serves as the science fiction editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books and as an associate editor for the Journal for the Fantastic in the Arts. He has recently published two books, Reverse Colonization: Science Fiction, Imperial Fantasy, and Alt-victimhood with the University of Iowa and Ann Leckie’s “Ancillary Justice”: A Critical Companion with Palgrave. dmhiggin@gmail.com
Eleni Macrakis grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and now works in the field of affordable housing development in the Greater Boston area. She holds a Master in Urban Planning from Harvard University. She is a co-author of A People’s Guide to Greater Boston (University of California Press, 2020). www.BostonBook.org
Suren Moodliar brings a campaigning background in housing, labor and corporate accountability to his organizing and theoretical work. This is influenced by his deep appreciation for diverse communities and respect for their histories. He is from South Africa where the struggle against apartheid provided his formative experiences. His latest book is a collection of essays edited with Charles Derber, Matt Nelson, and Nancy Treviño, How We Win: Energizing Strategies, Voters, and Agendas (Routledge, 2024). For his written work, please visit http://telos.co/s
Joseph Nevins is Pofessor of Geography at Vassar College. He was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, and received his PhD in Geography from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research interests include socioterritorial boundaries and mobility, violence and inequality, and political ecology; he has conducted research in East Timor, Mexico, the United States-Mexico border region, and the Greater Boston area. jonevins@vassar.edu
Jacob Sloan works as a non-tenure track Lecturer at Howard University, teaching four to five classes a semester. No matter how much or well he teaches, Howard will fire him after seven years—unless, of course, the NTT faculty union can organize enough force to abolish the university’s arbitrary seven-year term limit for NTT workers. A member of Tempest Collective, Jacob has published on global proletarian literature in Mediations and has written about student and faculty activism at Howard, including a credible strike threat on the part of NTT faculty in 2022, for Tempestmag.org. jacobdsloan1@gmail.com
George Snedeker has taught sociology for over 30 years and has published scholarly articles in social and cultural theory, and The Politics of Critical Theory, (2004). He is book review editor of Socialism and Democracy and has served on its editorial board since 1985. george. snedeker@verizon.net
Mark Soderstrom has been a professional blacksmith, carpenter, labor organizer, and musician. He is now a Professor in the Master of Arts in Public History, Liberal Studies and Work and Labor Policy programs of SUNY-Empire State University. He has published work on labor history, history of science, oral history, neoliberalism, and speculative fiction. His essay “Intimate Instabilities: Reproducing Violence in N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy” was recently published in the collec- tion, Kinship in the Fiction of N.K. Jemisin. marksoderstrom@me.com
Kurt Stand served 15 years in prison on charges of having committed espionage for the GDR, charges he unsuccessfully contested at trial and upon appeal. Prior to his arrest he had been a longtime activist within the labor movement, after release he worked at a bookstore for a decade prior to retirement. He joined DSA in 1983 and remains an engaged member in Prince George’s County, Maryland. More of his writing can be found at https://www.rfwpa.com/
Michael J. Sukhov is a sociologist, media journalist and educator who lives in Honolulu. He currently is a research associate at the University of Hawai’i West O’ahu, and an Affiliate Faculty member at the University of Washington at Tacoma. He enjoys teaching, writing, singing, dancing, playing guitar and harmonica, and the wonderful sunshine and aloha of these islands. Mike is a member, Green Party of Hawai’i and Jewish Voice for Peace, Hawai’i. hawaiiiscalling@gmail.com
Victor Wallis is a professor in the Liberal Arts Department at the Berklee College of Music (in Boston), Socialism and Democracy’s Editor-at-Large, and the author of Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism (Political Animal Press, 2018), Democracy Denied: Five Lectures on U.S. Politics (Africa World Press, 2019), and Socialist Practice: Histories and Theories (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). zendive@aol.com
