Ken Ehrlich is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles. His project-based practice engages with political struggles and the built environment, interweaving architectural, technological, and infrastructural histories. He is the editor of Art, Architecture, Pedagogy: Experiments in Learning and served as co-editor of the Surface Tension: Problematics of Site book series published by Errant Bodies Press. Ehrlich has received grants from the Durfee and Graham Foundations, and was named a “cultural trailblazer” by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. He teaches in the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California (USC).

Juan R. Fuentes is a Chicano artist, longtime cultural worker, and art teacher who lives in San Francisco. Arriving at the tail end of the Third World strike at San Francisco State University, he graduated in 1974 with a degree in art. He served as director of Mission Gráfica at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts and taught art at City College at the Mission campus, California College of the Arts, and San Francisco Art Institute. As a social activist/poster-maker and print-maker, he has long served on the cultural front of anti-imperialist struggles and global movements for change. His artwork has emerged from grassroots struggles by communities of color for social justice and liberation.

Robin Gabriel is a Ph.D. Candidate at UC Santa Cruz in Sociology and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. Her dissertation, “Palestine in Exile: Archiving Youth Cultural Production and Activism in Diaspora” examines the Palestine Youth Movement’s Ghassan Kanafani Resistance Arts Anthology as a site of diasporic formation, movement building, and archival curation.

Emmaia Gelman is the founding Director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, which examines Zionism as a transnational political and ideological structure. Her research investigates the history of ideas about race, queerness, safety, and rights, and their production as political levers in the realm of hate crimes policy, surveillance, “anti-terror”, and war. Her forthcoming book is a critical history of the Anti-Defamation League (1913-1990) as a Cold War neoconservative institution. She is the co-chair of the American Studies Association Caucus on Academic and Community Activism.

Yulia Gilich is a media artist, theorist, and community organizer. They received their PhD in Film & Digital Media from the University of California, Santa Cruz. They are a collective member of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. Their writing appeared in peer-reviewed journals, such as JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Critical Times, Image & Text, The Projector, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, and edited collections, such as Radical Film, the Arts and Digital Media at the Dawn of a New Society and Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine.

John Harfouch is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is currently studying the Fayez Sayegh archive in Utah.

Christine Hong is a professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz where she organized alongside students for ethnic studies and currently directs the Center for Racial Justice. She serves on the board of directors of the Korea Policy Institute and organizes with the UC Ethnic Studies Council. She is a core member of the Ending the Korean War Teaching Collective and the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. In Santa Cruz, she organizes with Pajaro Valley for Ethnic Studies and Justice.

Abdeen Jabara is an Arab American activist and attorney. Jabara received his B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1962, and a law degree from Wayne State University Law School in 1965. During Jabara’s years of law school, he gradually became involved with civil rights and founded a local chapter of the Civil Rights Research Council. 

During the mid-’70s, he was instrumental in exposing the Nixon Administration’s “Operation Boulder” surveillance program against Arabs and Arab Americans, which included deportations and harassment initiatives. As a result, he was the victim of a coordinated campaign of government surveillance. In 1985, he finally won a legal battle which forced the FBI to destroy the legal records it had maintained regarding his activities as protected by the first amendment. Jabara was also involved in a number of high-profile cases, for example, the murder trial of Sirhan Sirhan and the extradition case of Ziad Abu Eain.

He was formerly the national president of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) and president of the Association of Arab American University Graduates (AAUG) and also served as a cooperating attorney with the Detroit Metropolitan Branch of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

Amira Jarmakani is a professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and affiliated faculty with the Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies and LGBTQ Plus Studies at San Diego State University. Dr. Jarmakani is a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective and the collective of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism.

Xavier Livermon is Associate Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Interim provost of Oakes College, and faculty affiliate with Feminist Studies and Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has published widely in the fields of African Popular Culture and African Queer Studies. His recent book,  Kwaito Bodies: Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Postapartheid South Africa discusses the rise of post-apartheid South African popular culture and its articulation with contemporary politics of race, gender, and sexuality. He is currently working on a project examining Black Queer Belonging in South Africa.

Sean L. Malloy is a Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) at the University of California, Merced. He received his Ph.D. and MA in History from Stanford University and a BA in History from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Atomic Tragedy: Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use the Bomb Against Japan (Cornell University Press, 2008) as well as articles dealing with nuclear targeting in World War II and the radiation effects of the atomic bomb. His most recent book, Out of Oakland: Black Panther Party Internationalism During the Cold War, was published by Cornell University Press in 2017. His current research project examines the countermobilization against Palestinian solidarity efforts at U.S. universities.

Dr. Nadine Naber is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and the Global Asian Studies at UIC. At UIC, she is the Co-PI of the Middle East and Muslim Societies Cluster and faculty founder of the Arab American Cultural Center. She is author/co-editor of five books, including Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism (NYU Press, 2012) and Arab and Arab American Feminisms. She is the recipient of the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Prize from the American Studies Association; the 2002 YWCA’s Y-Women’s Leadership Award; and the Marguerite Casey Foundation’s Freedom Scholar Award. She serves on the boards of the Journal of Palestine Studies; the National Council for Arab Americans, and the Feminist Peace Initiative. Her forthcoming book is entitled Pedagogies of the Radical Mother (Haymarket Press).

Matt Seriff-Cullick (he/him) is a queer white Jew who has been living in Huichin, the unceded home of the Chochenyo speaking Ohlone People — the so-called Bay Area, California — for 20ish years. He works as a chef and is involved in abolitionist and Palestine solidarity organizing in the Bay.

Grey Weinstein (xe/xir) is an activist for disability justice and mad liberation with Detroit Peer Respite. As a Jewish anti-Zionist, xe has worked alongside Jewish Voices for Peace in Detroit and at the University of Michigan. Xir thesis “We’re all taking care of each other in our own ways”: Politics of Care for Transgender Communities within Biomedical Systems was awarded the 2023 Frank Grace Award for Outstanding Political Science Thesis by the University of Michigan. Xe lives in Ypsilanti on occupied Anishinaabe land.

Angel White (she/her) is an activist whose work focuses on ecological justice, police abolition and queer liberation. As a student activist at the University of Michigan, she was an organizer for Climate Action Movement, Care Not Cops, and GEO’s Abolition Team. She lives in Ypsilanti on occupied Anishinaabe land.

Omar Zahzah is a writer, poet, journalist, and Assistant Professor of Arab, Muslim, Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies in the Department of Race and Resistance Studies at San Francisco State University.