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Raphael Warnock is the senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, the spiritual home of Martin Luther King Jr., since 2005. Known for his activism and public voice, he authored The Divided Mind of the Black Church: Theology, Piety and Public Witness. Seeing his pastoral work as tied to the ministry of scholarship and the life of the mind, Warnock earned a master’s of philos...
Rouba Mhaissen is an economist, activist, and development practitioner who works on development issues in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region, particularly forced migration and the Syrian refugee crisis. She is founder and director of Sawa Foundation and Sawa for Development and Aid, civil society organizations working with Syrian refugees on an integrated appro...
Gillian Caldwell is CEO of Global Witness. A social justice advocate for over 35 years, she previously ran a consultancy to help progressive organizations increase their impact. Caldwell also led 1Sky (merged with 350.org), helping build the collaborative climate and energy campaign from its inception, and WITNESS, which harnesses the power of video to highlight human righ...
Maggie Loughran is an English major at the University of Chicago and editor in chief of The Chicago Maroon, the independent student newspaper of University of Chicago since 1892. She has also been news editor and a news reporter. Some of the issues that have defined Loughran’s time as a campus journalist are the tension between free speech and activism, policies concerning...
Vic Barrett is one of 21 youth activists suing the government to take action on climate change in Juliana v. United States. The suit claims the government violated youth rights by allowing climate-harming activities and asks for progressive changes to carbon dioxide emissions. Barrett participated in the COP21 UN climate summit in Paris on behalf of the Alliance for Climat...
Brenda Moore is founder and executive director of Kids Educational Engagement Project (KEEP) in Liberia. During the 2014 Ebola outbreak, when public schools were closed and children lacked access to educational materials (there are no public libraries in Liberia), she began teaching her children at home, then supporting other children with free worksheets and educational p...
Camila Sanmiguel is a student poet in the Creative Young Leaders Alliance, a program of the Aspen Institute that provides mentorship and training to the next generation of young arts leaders. The 2017 National Student Poet for the Southwest and a second-generation Mexican American, she sees poetry and her work as a way to appeal to human emotions, understand diverse groups...
Alisa Solomon is a theater critic, dramaturg, and professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She has written for The Nation, The New York Times,newyorker.com, American Theater, The Forward, The Drama Review, VICE Sports, and the Village Voice, where she was on staff from 1983 to 2004, writing about theater and covering US immigration policy, queer acti...