Speaker Bio

Anwar Shaikh

Anwar Shaikh is the Exile Professor Emeritus of Economics at The New School for Social Research. He is an Associate Editor of the Cambridge Journal of Economics, and was a Senior Scholar and member of the Macro Modeling Team at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College from 2000-2005. In 2014 he was awarded the NordSud International Prize for Literature and Science from Italy’s Fondazione Pescarabruzzo. His intellectual biography appears in the most recent edition of the book Eminent Economists II published by Cambridge University Press (2014) along with similar essays from thirty prominent economists including seven current Nobel Prize Laureates.

Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven

Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven is a political economist and heterodox development economist. She is Senior Lecturer at King’s College, London and holds a PhD in Economics from The New School. Her work is focused on uneven development, international financial subordination and the decolonization of economics.

James K Galbraith

James K. Galbraith holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and a professorship in Government at The University of Texas at Austin. He was executive director of the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress in the early 1980s, and before that, an economist for the House Banking Committee. He chaired the board of Economists for Peace and Security from 1996 to 2016 and directs The University of Texas Inequality Project. He is a managing editor of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.

Ramaa Vasudevan

Ramaa Vasudevan is a Professor at Colorado State University. Her research focuses primarily on themes related to the political economy of money and finance, and  Marxian and Post-Keynesian macro-analysis. She is the author of Things fall apart: From the crash of 2008 to the Great Slump. Ramaa Vasudevan is Associate Editor of Review of Social Economics and is a member of the Editorial Board of Catalyst and Review of Political Economy.

Carolina Alves

Carolina Alves is an Associate Professor in Economics at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College London (UCL) and a Fellow in Economics at Girton College, University of Cambridge. Carolina specializes in Macroeconomics, Political Economy, Development, Marxian Economics, and the Philosophy of Economics. She is an active member of the Cambridge Social Ontology Group and the Alternative Approaches to Economics Research Group at Cambridge’s Faculty of Economics. She is also the co-founder of the Diversifying and Decolonising Economics initiative, the UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies, and UCL Strategic Economic Alliance. In addition to her academic roles, Carolina co-edits The Developing Economics blog and serves on several advisory boards, including the Rebuilding Macroeconomics Advisory Board, the Progressive Economy Forum Council, and the Positive Money Advisory Panel.

Deepankar Basu

Deepankar Basu is Professor of Economics at UMass Amherst. His research interests are in classical political economy, macroeconomics, development economics and econometrics. His work has been published in leading journals like Cambridge Journal of Economics, Demography, Economics Letters, Journal of Development Studies, Metroeconomica, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Statistics & Probability Letters and World Development. His most recent book, “The Logic of Capital: An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory,” was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.

Nikolaos Chatzarakis

Nikolaos Chatzarakis is Assistant Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research. To learn more about his work, please visit here.

Riccardo Bellofiore

Riccardo Bellofiore is formerly Professor of Political Economy at the University of Bergamo, Italy. His main research areas are: Marxian theory of value and crisis, Endogenous theories of money, Tendencies of contemporary capitalism, History of Political Economy, Economic Philosophy. He has published books on Marx, Minsky, Mises, Luxemburg, Kowalik, Sraffa, Backhaus, Heinrich, the globalisation of capital and labour, the great financial crisis, and the European economy. He is in the editorial committee of Marx’s Complete Works in Italian, and he is a member of the International Symposium on Marxian Theory. He edited with Scott Carter Towards a New Understanding of Sraffa. Insights from Archival Research (Routledge 2014); with Giovanna Vertova The Great Recession and the Contradiction of Contemporary Capitalism (Edward Elgar, 2014), with Stefano Breda the Italian translation of Michael Heinrich’s Die Wissenschaft vom Wert [The Science of Value], and so forth.

Geert Dhondt

Geert Dhondt‘s teaching and research focuses on the economics of crime and justice.  He is particularly interested in the relationship between race in the post-segregation era, the logic of neoliberal capitalism, and the criminal justice system.  The National Institute of Justice awarded Geert a grant to study the empirical relationship between prison cycling and crime rates.  Geert received a distinguished faculty service award in 2012 and a distinguished teaching award in 2015 at John Jay College, City University of New York where he is an Associate Professor and Department Chair of Economics.  

Clara Brenck

Clara Brenck is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and Research Associate at the Research Center on Macroeconomics of Inequalities, from the University of São Paulo (Made/USP). She holds a PhD in economics from the New School for Social Research and a master’s in economics from FEA/USP. She is interested in the areas of fiscal and monetary policy, economic development and inequalities.

Costas Lapavitsas

Costas Lapavitsas has taught economics at SOAS since 1990 and has done research on the political economy of money and finance, the Japanese economy, the history of economic thought, economic history, and the contemporary world economy. Since 2010 his research interests have focused on the Eurozone crisis and the work he has produced, including with a group of researchers at Research on Money and Finance at SOAS, has had considerable impact on the European debate and policy making. His longer-term research interests, however, have been on the financialisation of capitalism, its characteristic trends, variable forms and manifold implications for contemporary society. His work on financialisation has become standard reference in the literature. Finally, during 2015 he was elected as a Member of Parliament in Greece.

Matías Vernengo

Matías Vernengo is Full Professor at Bucknell University, and the Director of the Bucknell Institute for Public Policy (BIPP). He was formerly Senior Research Manager at the Central Bank of Argentina (BCRA), Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Utah, and Assistant Professor at Kalamazoo College and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He has been an external consultant to several United Nations organizations like the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the International Labor Organization (ILO), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). He has seven edited books, two books and more than one hundred and twenty articles published in scientific peer reviewed journals or book chapters. He specializes in macroeconomic issues for developing countries, in particular Latin America, international political economy and the history of economic thought.

Clara E Mattei

Clara E. Mattei is Professor of Economics and Director of the CHE. She previously taught at the The New School for Social Research Economics Department and has been a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton. Her research contributes to the history of capitalism, exploring the critical relation between economic ideas and technocratic policy making. Her first book, The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism (University of Chicago Press 2022) is translated in over 10 languages. Her current book project critically reassesses the Golden Age of Capitalism (1945-1975) and its Keynesianism through the lens of austerity capitalism.

Rabbi Dovid Feldman

Rabbi Dovid Feldman is a spokesman for Neturei Karta International, an organization founded in the 1930’s in Jerusalem to protect the Jewish community from the new Zionist movement. Over the past few decades, NKI has been actively publicizing the voice of many Jewish communities around the world against the Zionist ideology, the Zionist state and its crimes committed against the Palestinian people. They explain to the world the distinction between Judaism and Zionism, that the relatively new Zionist movement is a rebellion against G-d, and that it does not represent the holy Torah, nor the entire Jewish people. Rabbi Feldman and his colleagues have visited the besieged Gaza Strip multiple times, where they have delivered truckloads of medical aid, including an ambulance, purchased with donations they had collected. They were warmly received there, as in all other Arab countries.

Raja Khalidi

Originally from Jerusalem, Raja Khalidi has lived most of his life in the Middle East and Europe. He was trained as a development economist, with a B.A.(Hons) from Oxford
University and M.Sc. from University of London (SOAS). He worked as an economist from 1985-2013 with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD-Geneva), where he was Coordinator of its Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian people, Head of its Debt and Development Finance Branch and Chief of the Office of the Director in the Division of Globalization and Development Strategies. He was principal or contributing author to over 50 UNCTAD reports and studies on the Palestinian economy and its development prospects and has published widely in scholarly journals and international media. Since 2019 he has served as Director-General of the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS), the premiere Palestinian economic think tank.

Lamees Farraj

Lamees Farraj is a researcher in fiscal policies, Public Budget, economic and developmental policies. With a strong passion for socio-economic issues and political economy. Lamees Obtained a master’s degree in economics from Birzeit University in 2016, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Birzeit University in 2010.

Shir Hever

Dr. Shir Hever is a graduate of the Free University of Berlin. He is the coordinator of the military embargo campaign of the BDS movement. His recent book is The Privatization of Israeli Security (2017, Pluto Press).

Ibrahim Shikaki

Ibrahim Shikaki is Assistant Professor of Economics at Trinity College, Hartford, CT. Ibrahim earned his PhD from the New School for Social Research (NSSR) in New York, and held teaching positions at NSSR, The International University College of Turin, Birzeit and Al-Quds Universities. He also held research several reserach positions at the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS) in Ramallah. His recent publications include a journal article on modelling the Palestinian economy, a book chapter on the political economy of dependency and class formation in Palestine, and a Foreign Policy piece on the dangers of “economic peace”. 

Scott Carter

Scott Carter is Professor of Economics and Chair of the Economics Department of the University of Tulsa. He specializes in heterodox approaches including Sraffian, Marxian, and Post-Keynesian theories with emphasis on the economics of income distribution. He also focuses on the intellectual and archival legacy of the Italian Cambridge economist Piero Sraffa. He is also an active organizer and activist to build a better society.

Zishun Ning

Zishun Ning is an organizer at Chinese Staff and Workers’ Association.

Wing Lam

Wing Lam serves as the executive director of the Chinese Staff & Workers’ Association (CSWA), an independent workers’ center founded by restaurant, garment, and construction workers of NYC Chinatown over 40 years ago. CSWA played an instrumental role in many precedent-setting victories, such as holding garment manufacturers liable for sweatshop conditions, reclaiming restaurant waitstaff the right to control their tips, forming the first low-ncome land trust in the New York City, and winning a historic anti-displacement lawsuit to require any large development to conduct environmental impact study to prevent secondary displacement – adding a new perspective, “People are a part of the environment,” to the environmentalist struggle. Recently CSWA successfully organized thousands of home care workers revolt against the most exploitative and decadent system in New York City, not only recovered billions of dollars of stolen wages for the workers, but also put forward the importance for the labor movement to fight against long working hours (The No to 24 hrs campaign) to unite the whole working class. 

JoAnn Lum

JoAnn Lum is an organizer with the NYC-based workers’ center the National Mobilization Against Sweatshops, which organizes workers of all trades, races, ethnicities, and genders–citizens and immigrants together– to fight against the systemic racism and exploitation that we face in our workplaces and communities.

Thiago Vasconcelos

Thiago Reis Vasconcelos has been a founding member of Companhia Antropofágica since 2002, being the creator of the Monhangokaracy Theater Festival and the 3 editions of the Feira Antropofágica de Opinião. He was on the board(President) of the Cooperativa Paulista de Teatro where he was curator of the I and II CPT Repertory exhibition. He was an arts teacher at CEU Pêra Marmelo, at the EMIA project (Municipal School of Artistic Initiation) and at FEBEM (Fundação Bem-estar do Menor) and music at the Colleges: Invenções, Emilie de Vileneuve and Jardim São Paulo. Coordinates the Antropofágica theater workshop since 2004. He carries out projects and consultancy in the areas of education and cultural policies, having been part of the CNPC (National Council for Cultural Policies) of the Ministry of Culture. During this period, national partnerships can be created on thinking, integration and development of projects linked to the areas of development of artistic and cultural languages. He is currently coordinator of the popular school of Agroecology( EPA – Escola Popular de Agroecologia) and coordinator of the Okaracy cultural Space, both in Comuna da Terra Irmã Alberta MST.  Thiago is  current MST Regional Organizer. 

Brittany Newton

Brittany Newton has served as an organizer in Columbus County as a Columbus county decider. She and her colleagues focused on raising the minimum wage in North Carolina and educating members of our community in the need to address economic inequality. Through grassroots tools like post cards, petitions, and phone banking. She and her colleagues are a group building the political voice in North Carolina to make a difference in the state.

Kelsey Royce

Kelsey Royce is a grassroots activist who organizes with folks in Tulsa around environmental, educational, and neighborhood issues to help expose the ways in which local networks of power subvert democratic processes and participatory governance. Royce is a founding member of Arkansas River Rights Coalition (ARRC) and Tulsa Area Arkansas River Advocates (TAARA). She is a graduate of The University of Tulsa.

Giovanna Vertova

Giovanna Vertova graduated in Economics and Social Sciences at the Bocconi University in Milan. She has a Master Degree in International Business and Economic Integration and a Ph.D. in Economics both at the University of Reading (UK). Currently she is Assistant Professor in Political Economy in the Department of Economics at the University of Bergamo. Her research interests are the spatial dimension of the economy, with a special attention to the globalization debate; the economics of innovation, with a particular focus on the national systems of innovation; feminist and gender economics, especially related to the labour market.

Scott Carter

Scott Carter is Professor of Economics and Chair of the Economics Department of the University of Tulsa. He specializes in heterodox approaches including Sraffian, Marxian, and Post-Keynesian theories with emphasis on the economics of income distribution. He also focuses on the intellectual and archival legacy of the Italian Cambridge economist Piero Sraffa. He is also an active organizer and activist to build a better society.

Jonathan Smith

Jonathan Smith is currently Curator of the Economists’ Papers Archive at Duke University. He was formerly Archivist at Trinity College Cambridge, where he was responsible for cataloguing the papers of, amongst others, Maurice Dobb, Dennis Robertson and Piero Sraffa and was involved in a project to provide digital images of Sraffa’s papers online. 

Andrés Lazzarini

Andres Lazzarini is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Management Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. He is PhD in Economics from the Third University of Rome (2008), Italy, where he discussed a thesis on the Cambridge-Controversy under the supervisions of Profs. Roberto Ciccone and the late Pierangelo Garegnani. Since 2024 Andres has been a Fellow in Higher Education Advance (UK) and holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education from Goldsmiths, University of London (2021-2023). His research areas include the History of Economic Thought, Epistemology of Economics (Classical, Marginalist, Post-Keynesian and Evolutionary Theories), Economic Development and Environmental History. His most important publications revolve around topics such as the Cambridge-Cambridge controversy in Capital Theory; the reappraisal of Sraffa’s contribution to Economic theory and the research into the Sraffa’s unpublished manuscripts; Economic Development in historical perspectives; critical perspectives in the teaching of Economics.

Saverio M fratini

Saverio Maria Fratini is Full Professor of Economics and President of the School of Economics and Business Studies at Roma Tre University. He served as coordinator of the PhD programme in Economics (2021–2024) and coordinator of the Bachelor’s degree programme in Economics (2018–2021) at the same university. He is the President of the Italian Association for the History of Political Economy (STOREP). He is the Principal Investigator in the Italian National Research Project (PRIN 2022) “Garegnani Archive: Documents and Interpretations.” His research interests primarily focus on economic theory and the history of economic thought, with a particular reference on Piero Sraffa’s contribution. He has authored numerous papers published in academic journals, including the Journal of Economic Surveys, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Metroeconomica, and European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, among others, as well as in various collected volumes.

Alex M Thomas

Alex M. Thomas is Associatfe Professor of Economics at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. His primary area of research is in the history of economic thought (HET) with a specific focus on classical political economy. He has published his research in various journals such as Economic and Political Weekly, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, History of Economic Ideas, History of Economics Review, and Review of Political Economy. His popular writings have been published in several newspapers, magazines and blogs such as The Hindu, Moneycontrol, Developing Economics, The Mint Magazine, Jacobin, Teacher Plus, and D-Econ. He is currently serving on the Council of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET). He is the founding president of the Indian Society for the History of Economic Thought (ISHET). 

Stephen Maher

Stephen Maher is Assistant Professor of Economics at SUNY Cortland, and Co-Editor (with Greg Albo) of The Socialist Register. His work focuses on the role of the state and finance in the development and internationalization of American capitalism from the nineteenth century to the present. He is the author (with Scott Aquanno) of The Fall and Rise of American Finance: From J.P. Morgan to BlackRock (Verso Books, 2024), as well as Corporate Capitalism and the Integral State: General Electric and a Century of American Power (Palgrave, 2023).

David McNally

David McNally is the NEH-Cullen Chair in History and Business at the University of Houston, where he directs the Project on Race and Capitalism. The author of eight books, Dr. McNally won the Deutscher Memorial Award for Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism (2012) and the Paul Sweezy Award for Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance. His book Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History will be published by University of California Press in the summer of 2025.

Branko Milanovic

Branko Milanovic is a senior scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality. He obtained his Ph. D. in economics from the University of Belgrade with a dissertation on income inequality in Yugoslavia. He served as lead economist in World Bank Research Department for almost 20 years and as a senior associate at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington from 2003 to 2005. He has held teaching appointments at the University of Maryland (2007-2013) and at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University (1997-2007). Milanovic’s main area of work is income inequality, in individual countries and globally, as well as historically, among pre-industrial societies (Roman Empire, Byzantium, and France before the Revolution), and even inequality in soccer. 

Trevor Jackson

Trevor Jackson is Assistant Professor of History and Political Economy at the University of California, Berkeley.  His first book, Impunity and Capitalism: the Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690-1830, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.   

Robert Brenner

Robert Brenner is Professor Emeritus of History at UCLA, and director of Center for Social Theory and Comparative History. One of the world’s most prominent Marxian historians, his influential 1976 article, Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe, started the Brenner debate. Amongst his noteworthy books, The boom and the bubble : the US in the world economy (Verso, 2002), The economics of global turbulence : the advanced capitalist economies from Long Boom to Long Downturn, 1945–2005 (New York, Verso). To learn more about his work, please visit here.

Bruno Theodosio

Bruno Theodosio is Assistant Professor of Economics. He specializes in political economy, with a strong focus on probabilistic thinking and mathematical methods applied to economic ideas. His research aims to uncover the inner workings of capitalism and reveal the underlying dynamics governing economic variables. His interests lie at the intersection of political economy, heterodox macroeconomics, the history of economic thought, and quantitative empirical methods, including Maximum Entropy Economics and Bayesian techniques.

Ellis Scharfenaker

Ellis Scharfenaker is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Utah. He received a PhD in Economics from the New School of Social Research, New York and has previously taught at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Professor Scharfenaker’s research centers on the foundations of statistical reasoning, economic theory and methodology, and complex systems theory. His new book with Duncan K. Foley Making Statistics Work: Information Theory and Bayesian Statistical Inference develops the logic of Bayesian inference with an emphasis on its relation to information theory.

Doğuhan Sündal

Doğuhan Sündal earned his Ph.D. in 2022 from the University of Utah, where he worked as a research assistant on topics related to political economy and macroeconomics. He is currently an assistant professor of economics at California State University, San Bernardino. Dr. Sündal’s research integrates firm-level data and information-theoretic models to examine market competition as a complex system. He also conducts theoretical and empirical analyses of class structures and comparative political economy.

Paulo L dos Santos

Paulo L dos Santos is a mathematical political economist working as Associate Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research. His research interests include monetary and value theory, the methodological approaches and mathematical formalisms grounding economic analysis, and the specific social relations of contemporary capitalism. In his current work, Professor dos Santos is engaging with the epistemic limitations and explanatory biases of conventional approaches to statistical analysis of socioeconomic systems, and drawing on information theory to develop alternative formal approaches that can better handle the taxing knowledge problems and the irreducibly systemic and social realties faced by political economy and broader social inquiry. 

Suzi Weissman

Suzi Weissman is Professor of Politics at Saint Mary’s College of California and an editor of Against the Current and Critique. She is an award-winning broadcast journalist and hosts “Beneath the Surface” program on Los Angeles’ KPFK radio. She is the author of Victor Serge: The Course is Set on Hope.

Luiza Nassif Pires

Luiza Nassif Pires is co-director of Made and Assistant Professor at the institute of economics at Unicamp. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from The New School for Social Research and is a research associate in the Gender Equality and Economics program at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College, where she lectured in the graduate programs in Economic Theory and Public Policy. She is also the representative of the caucus of women and non-binary people in the steering committee of URPE and a member of the board of directors of IAFFE

Sirisha Naidu

Sirisha Naidu is Associate Professor of Economics and affiliate faculty in the Department of Race, Ethnic, and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). Her research focuses on feminist political economy analyses of agrarian change and ecological shifts, environmental justice, the interwoven tapestry of productive and reproductive labor in the Global South, and informal and precarious work in the global economy. In addition to her academic roles, Sirisha is producer and co-host of the radio show Economics for the People on KKFI 90.1 FM.

Débora M Nunes

Débora M Nunes is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Monmouth University. She holds a PhD in Economics from Colorado State University, where she also worked as an instructor and teaching assistant. Débora has a Master’s degree in Development Economics from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, Brazil) and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the same institution; she was also an invited student at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE, Mexico). Débora’s professional experiences include internships at the Central Bank of Brazil and at the Southern Brazil Regional Development Bank, and Research Assistantship for the Feminist Economics Journal. In the private sector, she owned a cultural production company and worked as a producer and professional dancer for several years. Her research interests and published work debate feminist economics, history of economic thought, Latin American studies, and macro political economy.

Anamary Maqueira Linares

Anamary Maqueira Linares holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, United States. She is an Assistant Professor of Economics, Economics and Society Stream in the Department of Economics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. Her research areas lie at the intersection of Feminist Political Economy, Labour, Development and Distribution in Global South countries, especially Cuba. She is particularly interested in social reproduction approaches at different levels of analysis, from theoretical to methodological to empirical. Her current research aims to contribute to a better understanding of the circumstances and processes of state involvement in social reproduction processes and their unequal implications for the distribution of the costs of social reproduction among the state, the market, the families and communities in Global South contexts.

Halla Gunnarsdóttir

Halla Gunnarsdóttir is the head of VR union, the largest labor union in Iceland. She was educated as a teacher and hold an MA in international relations. She started her career as a journalist and has been active within the Icelandic labour movement for many years. She holds an M.A. degree in International Relations from the University of Iceland and a B.Ed. degree in Education. She has an extensive leadership and policy-making experience, from grass roots organisations to the labour movement and to the highest level of government. Most recently, she served as the General Secretary of ASÍ, the Icelandic Confederation of Labour, which consists of 46 trade unions, covering two thirds of the Icelandic labour market. She has been political advisor to two different governments, first to the Minister of the Interior in Iceland in 2009–2013 and then later to the current government.

Sveinn M Jóhannesson

Sveinn M. Jóhannesson researches and teaches American and global history at the University of Iceland. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2019 focusing on the history of the state, capitalism and science. His first book The Scientific-Military State: How Enlightened Engineers Reinvented the Early American State will be published by The University of Chicago Press in 2025. Sveinn has also written on the history of economics and austerity in interwar Iceland.

Ritchie Tabachnick

Ritchie Tabachnick was a founding board member and former Chair of Keystone Progress, a Pennsylvania-based organizing and progressive communications organization. He’s a member of the ACLU finance committee.He has been a member of Voices for Progress, a national, multi-issue political and policy advocacy group.He’s in the national leadership circle of J Street.He’s a board member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Action Fund.He has donated, fundraised, door-knocked, rallied, phone-banked, and organized for candidates from Maine to California who share my vision of a more just society.

Bob Lord

Chad Zimmerman

Chad Zimmerman is executive editor at the University of Chicago Press, acquiring books in economics and economic history. His recent publishing includes Clara E. Mattei’s The Capital Order and James K. Galbraith’s Entropy Economics.

Ahmad Wuhidi

Ahmad Wuhidi is a passionate young filmmaker and dedicated journalist from the war-torn Gaza. Before Oct 7th, Ahmad worked as an interpreter and content writer at UNRWA Head-Quarter. He also took part in a team that translated Richard Wright’s book, “Environmental Science: Toward a Sustainable Future.” While in school, Ahmad was awarded a place in an academic exchange program with Glasgow University where he studied international law and human rights. In 2022, he was selected for and completed an online production internship, which focused on writing, editing, and organizing production in the field and was taught by a Senior Producer of the TRT World, Turkey’s international English-language broadcast news channel.  Mainly, Ahmad’s work addresses the catastrophic humanitarian situation in occupied Palestine. In 2025, Ahmad made his first cinematic short film: “The Regret, which addresses the bitterness of losing someone precious in connection with what’s happening in Gaza.

Maurizio Donati

Maurizio Donati is the Editor in chief of the publishing house Fuoriscena, the new imprint of the italian newspaper “Corriere della Sera”. He was the Editor of the publishing house Chiarelettere (2007-2023). He has a degree in Philosophy and a Phd in Philosophy and Human Sciences (University of Perugia and Macerata).

Giuseppe Mastruzzo

Giuseppe Mastruzzo is the director of the International University College of Turin, established in 2006 for the critical study of law and finance as the institutional foundations of global capitalism. Giuseppe, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Kent at Canterbury, is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Public Law and Policy, and regularly teaches at Lanzhou University in China and the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. He is also President of the Eating City research and advocacy programme.

Natasha Lennard

Natasha Lennard is the associate director of the Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism program at The New School for Social Research. She is a columnist for The Intercept. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Bookforum and the New York Times, among others. She is the author of “Violence: Humans in Dark Times,” (City Lights, 2018, with Brad Evans) and “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life” (Verso, 2019). She is currently working on her next book, on how we might better conceptualize certainty and uncertainty, for Verso Books.