Speakers

• Jamal Joseph

  Jamal Joseph is a writer, director, activist, professor and former chair of Columbia University’s Graduate Film Division and the artistic director of the New Heritage Theatre Group in Harlem. Joseph was a member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, and was prosecuted as one of the Panther 21. His memoir Panther Baby was published in February 2012.

• Kaydrianne Young

  Kaydrianne Young is a justice advocate. While earning her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology at the University of Florida, she worked with grassroots public education groups and her university to recruit, train, and mentor youth for leadership in environmental entrepreneurship and renewable energy advocacy. She currently works as Operations Coordinator at Million Hoodies

• Steve Schapiro

  Steve Schapiro is a photographer who has earned international acclaim for his photos of key moments of the Civil Rights Movement, such as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom or the Selma to Montgomery marches. He is also known for his portraits of celebrities and movie stills, most importantly from The Godfather and Taxi Driver.

• Gabriella Coleman

  Gabriella Coleman is an anthropologist, academic and author whose work focuses on hacker culture and online activism, particularly Anonymous. She currently holds the Wolfe Chair in Scientific & Technological Literacy at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Nathan Schneider writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education named her “the world’s foremost scholar on Anonymous.”

• Tania Bruguera

  Tania Bruguera is a Cuban installation and performance artist who lives between New York and Havana. Bruguera’s work pivots around issues of power and control, and several of her works interrogate and re- present events in Cuban history. As part of the work, Bruguera has launched an Immigrant Respect Awareness Campaign and launched an international day of actions on 18 December 2011 (which the UN has designated International Migrants Day), in which other artists will also make work about immigration.