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David A. Banks is author of The City Authentic (UC Press, 2023) which used everything from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine to Soulja Boy’s “Crank That” to help explain social media’s impact on economic development. He is lecturer in the Geography & Planning Department and Director of Globalization Studies at University at Albany, SUNY.
Ben Burgis is a Jacobin columnist, an adjunct philosophy professor at Rutgers University, and the host of the YouTube show and podcast Give Them An Argument. His books include Canceling Comedians While the World Burns (Zero Books, 2021) and Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why it Matters (Zero Books, 2022).
Kelly Diaz is a postdoctoral fellow with the Healthy, Equitable, and Responsive Democracy (HEARD) Research Initiative at Swarthmore College where she works with the Politics and Equal Participation Lab (PEPL) and the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility. She earned her Ph.D. from the Annenberg School for Communication where she wrote her dissertation on depictions of youth activism on television. Kelly also has a Master’s of International Affairs from Penn State with a concentration in human rights and humanitarian response. She is passionate about studying the intersection of pop culture and social justice.
Maria DiPasquale is the Deputy Communications Director of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) and creator of the podcast Leftist Teen Drama, on which she celebrates, analyzes, and critiques political moments on TV teen dramas.
Eric Dirnbach is a union organizer, researcher and campaigner at the Laborers’ International Union of North America. He has written about labor issues for Jacobin, Labor Notes, and Convergence, and is a contributor to the book Real World Labor (Dollars & Sense, Fourth Edition, 2024).
Paul Gagliardi is a teaching associate professor of English at Marquette University, and the author of All Play and No Work: American Work Ideals and the Comic Plays of the Federal Theatre Project (Tempe University Press, 2024).
Terri Gerstein is the director of the Labor Initiative at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She previously enforced New York’s workplace laws for many years, including as labor bureau chief in the state attorney general’s office. She writes frequently on labor and policy issues, with bylines in the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, Slate, Teen Vogue, and more.
Andy Hodder is a Reader in Employment Relations, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK. Andy’s research examines contemporary trade unionism in a range of contexts. His work has appeared in journals such as: British Journal of Industrial Relations; British Journal of Sociology; Industrial Relations Journal; New Technology, Work and Employment; Work and Occupations.
Benjamin Hopkins is an Associate Professor within Birmingham Business School at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Having gained his qualifications from the University of Oxford and the University of Warwick, he has researched and published widely in the field of Industrial Relations. He is a member of the University and College Union.
Jenny Hunter is a labor lawyer, consultant to unions and nonprofits, and freelance writer. She was previously an attorney in the legal department of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and at the union-side labor law firm Bredhoff & Kaiser. She writes about labor law, judicial nominations, the courts, and popular culture, including in Slate, Balls and Strikes, CNN, and The American Prospect.
Fred B. Jacob is the Solicitor of the National Labor Relations Board and teaches labor law at George Washington University Law School. In his personal capacity, he writes on the intersection of labor and administrative law. He has appeared on podcasts discussing Norma Rae and Matewan, taught lawyers about unions in pop culture, and presented at the San Diego International Comic-Con on comic books as instruments of labor organizing in mid-century America.
Erik Loomis is Professor of History at the University of Rhode Island. He writes on labor, environmental, and political issues at the blog Lawyers, Guns, and Money. His books include A History of America in Ten Strikes (New Press, 2018) and Organizing America: Stories of Americans Who Fought for Justice (New Press, 2025).
Shaun Richman (Editor) is author of Tell The Bosses We’re Coming: A New Action Plan for Workers in the 21st Century (Monthly Review Press, 2020) and We Always Had a Union: New York’s Hotel Workers Unions, 1912-1953 (University of Illinois Press, 2025). He teaches labor history at SUNY Empire State University.
Christopher A. Riddle is a Distinguished Professor & Chair of Philosophy at Utica University, NY. He is the author of Disability & Justice (2014), Human Rights, Disability, and Capabilities (2016), The Ethics of Assisted Dying (forthcoming 2025), The Ethics of Disability (forthcoming 2025), and the editor of From Disability Theory to Practice (2018) and Disability & Death (forthcoming 2025).
Alina Sipp-Alpers is the Recruitment & Data Manager at New Working Majority recruiting for unions including SEIU 1199 New England, SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, and UNITE HERE Philly, and also works with grassroots labor groups like Jobs With Justice and PowerSwitch Action. She is interested in the ways in which the narrative around unions and the labor movement is changing in the age of social media.
Olivia Wood is a lecturer in language, writing, and rhetoric in the English department at the City College of New York, member and former delegate of PSC-CUNY (AFT Local 2334), and a regular contributor to Left Voice, writing primarily about labor and higher education.