During Wednesday’s oral arguments over Donald Trump’s travel ban at the Supreme Court, attorney Neal Katyal made reference to how the ban has blocked a U.S. citizen named Nageeb al-Omari. Al-Omari...
Katherine Acey, New York, served as the Executive Director of Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice for twenty-three years (1987 – 2010). Under her stewardship Astraea established the nation's first...
Gay McDougall’s work has consistently challenged inequality. She has worked on the fault-lines of race, gender and economic exploitation in the American context and in countries around the world. Gay...
Elizabeth A. Castelli is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Religion at Barnard College. She is author and editor of several books, and the translator of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s script for the never-...
Colette Pichon Battle (she/her) is the Vision and Initiatives Partner for Taproot Earth. She spearheaded efforts around equitable climate disaster recovery, global migration, community economic...
Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele is an organizer and educator based in central Brooklyn. He is the former National Strategies and Partnerships Director at The Movement for Black Lives. From 2011 to 2020, he...
Laila Al-Arian, Virginia, is a journalist, writer and filmmaker based in Washington DC. For her investigative documentary "Made in Bangladesh," she received the Peabody award and Robert F Kennedy...
Amanda Alexander, Michigan, is the f ounding Executive Director of the Detroit Justice Center, a Senior Research Scholar at University of Michigan Law School , and a nationally recognized scholar of...
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. She served as Founding Director of...
Katherine Franke, New York, is the James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University, where she also directs the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law and is the faculty director of the Public...