Gianpaolo Baiocchi (NYU Gallatin)
Gianpaolo Baiocchi is a sociologist and an ethnographer interested in questions of politics and culture, critical social theory, and cities.
Jordan Camp (Trinity College)
Camp is an assistant professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the Trinity’s Social Justice Initiative. He is the author of Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State (University of California Press, 2016)
DaMareo Cooper (Center for Popular Democracy)
DaMareo is an Ohio-based grassroots organizer with deep roots in both racial justice and electoral campaigning at the local, state, and national level.
Alejandra Cruz (Sustainable Economies Law Center)
Alejandra is a staff attorney at the Sustainable Economies Law Center. She is passionate about racial justice, immigrant rights, and health equity, and comes to the Law Center motivated to work towards achieving economic justice for the communities that are close to her heart.
Marika Dias (Urban Justice Center Safety Net Project)
Marika Dias is a public interest attorney who has worked in civil legal services since 2001 with a focus on providing legal services that support community organizing efforts and grassroots organizing groups.
Brooke Floyd (JXN People’s Assembly, People’s Advocacy Institute)
Brooke is the coordinator for the JXN People’s Assembly.
Katherine M. Franke (Columbia Law School)
Katherine Franke is the James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University, and Director of the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law.
Renee Hatcher (University of Illinois Chicago Law)
Renee Hatcher is an Assistant Professor of Law and the Director of the Community Enterprise & Solidarity Economy Clinic at UIC John Marshall Law School-Chicago.
Christina Heatherton (Trinity College)
Associate Professor of American Studies and Human Rights at Trinity College and author of, Arise! Making Internationalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution (University of California Press, 2022).
Joo-Hyun Kang (The Action Lab)
Joo-Hyun Kang is a long-time organizer, trainer, and strategist. She has worked with over 200 local, state and national organizations to fight abusive policing and reduce the illegitimate power, scope and size of the largest police department in the U.S.
Rasmia Kirmani-Frye (Hester Street)
Rasmia Kirmani-Frye serves on the City Planning commission and is a former Hester Street board member and current consultant.
Ntanya Lee (LeftRoots)
NTanya Lee is the co-founder and National Secretary of LeftRoots, a national formation of Left social movement organizers and activists who want to connect grassroots struggles to a strategy to win liberation for all people and the planet.
Sateesh Nori (JustFix)
Sateesh Nori (he/him) is an experienced tenant attorney and law professor. For twenty years, he represented tenants across New York City at various legal services organizations.
Safiya Omari (City of Jackson, MS )
Dr. Omari is an Associate Professor of Social Work and Health Sciences at Jackson State University currently serves as Chief of Staff for Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba
Dorian Payán (Sustainable Economies Law Center)
Dorian Payán is a legal apprentice at the Sustainable Economies Law Center’s Radical Real Estate Law School.
Tara Raghuveer (KC Tenants)
Tara Raghuveer is founding director of KC Tenants, an organization dedicated to ensuring everyone in the metropolitan area has a safe, accessible and affordable home.
Missy Risser-Lovings (CUNY Law)
Missy Risser-Lovings is a Clinical Law Instructor, Supervising Attorney, and Co-Director of CUNY School of Law’s Community and Economic Development Clinic (CEDC), which provides legal and policy support to community-led organizations that redress structural inequities faced by marginalized communities.
Nara Roberta Silva (Brooklyn Institute for Social Research)
Nara’s research and teaching focus on the areas of social movements, global Marxism, post/anti-colonialism, and the links between classical and contemporary sociological theory to illuminate issues on race, class, and gender in the making of subjectivity and collective action.
Lester Spence (Johns Hopkins)
Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He specializes in the study of black, racial, and urban politics in the wake of the neoliberal turn.
John Whitlow (CUNY School of Law)
John Whitlow is an Associate Professor at the CUNY School of Law, where he co-directs the Community and Economic Development Clinic (CEDC), supervising the CEDC’s Anti-Displacement Practice Area.
Jason D. Williamson (Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at NYU School of Law)
Jason D. Williamson is the Executive Director of the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law. He previously served as the deputy director of the ACLU’s Criminal Law Reform Project.
