adrienne maree brown is a writer rooted in Detroit who now lives in Durham, NC. Her books include Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Holding Change, and the speculative-fiction trilogy, Grievers. A student of the works of Octavia E. Butler and Ursula K. Le Guin, brown is the editor of the Emergent Strategy Series, published by AK Press.
Janine de Novais is a writer, sociologist, and cultural strategist interested in liberation as a cultural project, a matter of (un)learning. She is the author of Brave Community: Teaching for a Post-Racist Imagination.
Malkia Devich-Cyril is an award winning writer and public speaker on issues of digital rights, narrative power, Black liberation and collective grief; as well as a founder, former Executive Director, and current Senior Fellow at Media Justice, a national hub boldly advancing racial justice, rights and dignity in a digital age.