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Steve Dubb is strategic initiatives editor at Shelterforce. Prior to Shelterforce, Steve worked as senior editor of economic justice at Nonprofit Quarterly. Before that, he worked at The Democracy Collaborative—where he authored, co-authored, and edited numerous reports; participated in and facilitated learning cohorts; and helped build the field of community wealth building. He was also previously the executive director of NASCO (North American Students of Cooperation), a U.S. and Canadian association of housing cooperatives, focused on campus communities. Steve has authored and edited multiple books. Most recently, he co-edited (with Raymond Foxworth) Invisible No More: Voices from Native America (Island Press, 2023). Steve is based in Boston, Massachusetts, and actively volunteers in the area with multiple groups on economic justice work.

P.J. Christabell is Head of Department and Associate Professor of Economics at University of Kerala.

Patricia Serrano is a bilingual journalist based in Asheville and a member of Report for America. She covers immigration, political, and social issues in western North Carolina for Enlace Latino NC, with a focus on community journalism. She was born in Argentina and studied journalism at the National University of La Plata. She specializes in narrative journalism and audio production.

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Samuel Comé is a freelance journalist based in Maputo, Mozambique. He reports for The Guardian/Observer, The Christian Science Monitor, and the Thomson Reuters Foundation, and has also worked with CNN in Mozambique.

On a mission to increase representation in the Entertainment, Gaming, Media & Tech industries, BRIC by BRIC.

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Najeeb VR is a social scientist and research coordinator at the UL Research Centre in Kozhikode, Kerala, where he integrates transdisciplinary approaches to cooperative development, social transformation, and knowledge systems. He is also a member of the expert committee for the 14th Five-Year Plan Subgroup of the Kerala State Planning Board and actively contributes to academic outreach, curriculum development, and public scholarship. He holds a PhD in sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University and is a recipient of the Revise PhD Fellowship of the Kerala Council for Historical Research.

Vijoo Krishnan is the general secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) and a polit bureau member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). As a leader of the AIKS, he played a crucial role in the historic farmers’ agitation in Delhi in 2021–2022. Before becoming a full-time political activist, he was the head of the Department of Political Science at St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore. In 1998–1999, he was the president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union. Vijoo is also a photographer who captures the everyday life of the working class.

Nidheesh J Villatt is a member of the All India Kisan Sabha’s Central Kisan Committee as well as the research coordinator of the P Sundarayya Memorial Trust, a research institute that focuses on agrarian issues and movements. Nidheesh is dedicated to studying and building the worker-peasant alliance, with a focus on its political economy and philosophy. He has written about agrarian and industrial class struggles, ‘competition’ under capitalism, political ecology, and Hindutva.