Anand Giridharadas is a writer and the author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, published by Knopf in 2018. His other books are The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas and India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking. He is an editor-at-large for TIME, an on-air political analyst for MSNBC, and a visiting scholar at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. He is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times, having written, most recently, the biweekly “Letter from America.”

Paul Friedland is a professor of political and cultural history at Cornell University, focusing on France in the Revolutionary period and on the interplay of ideas and culture between France and its Caribbean colonies. His research and writing have been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and by visiting fellowships from the Davis Center for Historical Studies and the Institute for Advanced Study, both at Princeton University.

Robyn C. Spencer is a historian that focuses on Black social protest after World War II, urban and working-class radicalism, and gender. She is an Associate Professor of History at Lehman College, City University of New York, where she teaches survey and seminar courses on African American heritage, civil rights and Black Power and Black women’s history. Her first book, The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland, was published in 2016.

Tania Bruguera is a Cuban-born artist and activist whose work centers on questions of political power and control. She promotes the creation of artworks that are beneficial to society in drawing attention to injustice and violence, highlighting the use of art as a force for resistance. Her work has been displayed at institutions such as MoMA, Tate Modern, and the Guggenheim in New York and is part of the collections of MoMA, the Bronx Museum of the Arts and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana. In 2021, she joined the Theater, Dance, & Media faculty at Harvard University.

David Wallace-Wells is a journalist and author. He serves as the deputy editor at New York Magazine, where he writes frequently about climate and the near future of science and technology. His 2017 New York Magazine essay “The Uninhabitable Earth” was expanded into a book in 2019 and remains a crucial text on the impending impacts of the climate crisis.

Patrick Wyman is a writer and the host of The Tides of History podcast. He earned his PhD in 2016 from the University of Southern California and in 2021 published his first book, The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World.

Tim Parks is a novelist, translator, author, and professor of literature. He has written eighteen novels, including Europa (1997), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Since the 1990s, Parks has written frequently for both the London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books, as well as published various works of non-fiction, including Medici Money (2005).

Hilary Cottam is a social entrepreneur working with communities and governments around the world to design collaborative, affordable solutions to big social challenges, with an emphasis on human relationships supported by technology. Hilary’s current work focuses on the need for a “fifth social revolution” to enable widespread flourishing in this century as work, society and our economies go through deep structural change.

Walter Mignolo is the William Hane Wannamaker Distinguished Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University. His research and teaching have been devoted to understanding and unraveling the historical foundation of the modern/colonial world system and imaginary since 1500. Mignolo was awarded the Katherine Singer Kovaks prize for his book The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality and Colonization (1996) and the Frantz Fanon Prize for The Idea of Latin America (2006).

Dread Scott is a visual artist making revolutionary work to propel history forward. His work has been included in exhibitions at MoMA PS1, the Walker Art Center, and Gallery MOMO in Cape Town, South Africa, and is in the collection of the Whitney Museum and the Brooklyn Museum. He is a 2021 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and has also received fellowships from Open Society Foundations and United States Artists, as well as a Creative Capital grant.

Anne-Marie Slaughter is the CEO of New America and the author of eight books including, most recently, Renewal: From Crisis to Transformation in Our Lives, Work, and Politics (2021). She was previously the director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department and the dean of the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.