Speakers

• Anand Giridharadas

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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.