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Jere Kuzmanić (Barcelona/Split) is an urbanist, anarchist and assistant at the University of Split. His research seeks to reconstruct the historical continuity of the anarchist roots of the planning movement. Also a member of the collective Rad.Ni.K, friend, father and gardener.

Paige Wolf is a communications expert dedicated to creating meaningful progressive change locally and globally. For 20 years, she has run Paige Wolf Media and Public Relations, offering communications services to a wide variety of clients including nonprofit organizations, political campaigns, and mission-driven businesses. Learn more at www.paigewolf.com.

The Game Devs of Color Expo is a games expo and conference that features creators from across a spectrum of backgrounds showing off their games, building culture, and pushing games forward as an artform.

Rosa Zubizarreta works with leaders, groups, and organizations as a participatory leadership consultant. Author of From Conflict to Creative Collaboration: A Manual for Dynamic Facilitation, she offers workshops internationally on advanced facilitation approaches for complex issues.  In addition to her training and experience in the field of organization development, Rosa also has training and practice in the fields of multicultural education and social work. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Fielding Graduate University.

Rozanna Travis is a writer based in Turin, Italy. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Arizona, US.

Law Department, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (Brazil);
Università degli Studi di Camerino (Italy)

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Rebecca Lurie  is the founder of the Community and Worker Ownership Project at the City University of NY School for Labor and Urban Studies and the Murphy Institute where she also serves as faculty in the Urban Studies Department. She is a founding member of the worker-owned cooperative, New Deal Home Improvement Company. She began her working career as a union carpenter and transitioned into worker education through the union’s apprenticeship program and the construction industry. Using a sector approach for understanding industries and businesses and their employment needs, she has remained dedicated to inclusive community economic development. Rebecca has collaborated on numerous initiatives in NYC, including pre-apprenticeship programs, a Bronx green jobs network, a kitchen business incubator and the design of Best for NYC. She serves on the boards of the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative and Democracy at Work Institute. She is Trustee Emerita with the  Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture. She holds a Master’s in Organizational Change Management from The New School, a certificate in Adult Occupational Education from CUNY and is certified in Permaculture Urban Design. She is a native New Yorker raised with the spirit and passion of dedication to social justice.

As a writer I work to bridge the gap between academic rigour and plain English communication. Like a tree that falls around no one, no piece of work , no matter how great, is useful if it can’t reach an audience.

Geography and Planning, University of Toronto, Canada.