Jade E. Davis, PhD is Associate Director for Digital Learning Projects at LaGuardia Community College. Her research and public writing is in applied theory and media ecology, with a particular emphasis on digital culture, surveillance studies, and representations in relation to questions of race and gender. Her work has appeared in Decolonization, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Talking Points Memo, and elsewhere.
Eric Fair is an Army veteran who worked in Iraq as a contract translator and interrogator in 2004. He won a Pushcart prize for his 2012 essay “Consequence,” which was published first in Ploughshares and then in Harper’s. His op-eds denouncing the US torture program and its place in American political discourse have been published in The Washington Post and The New York Times; his memoir is published by Henry Holt.
Liat Katz, LCSW-C is a clinical social worker at Montgomery County Adult Protective Services in Maryland. A graduate of New Directions, a three-year postgraduate writing program run by the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis, she currently serves on their faculty. Katz has written about treating people in marginalized communities who suffer from complex trauma, her own experiences with depression and psychiatric care, queer identity, and more. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Lilith, The Washingtonian, and elsewhere.
Patrick Blanchfield is the 2016-2017 Henry R. Luce Initiative in Religion in International Affairs Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Religion and Media at NYU. He holds a PhD in Comparative
Literature from Emory University and is a graduate of the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute. He writes about gun violence, trauma, religion, and masculinity. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, The New York Daily News, n+1, The New Inquiry, Foreign Policy, and elsewhere.