Sandra Tamari is an organizer with the St. Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee and co-chair of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Steering Committee. Since the murder of Mike Brown in Ferguson, she has focused on joint liberation among Palestinians, black Americans, and other communities of color. Tamari has a master’s in Arab studies from Georgetown University…

Gabriel M. Schivone is a writer and dramatist from Tucson, AZ, currently based in New York City where he founded People’s Theatre Productions. The subjects of his published fiction, nonfiction, and stage plays have spanned US foreign policy, Palestine, and radical labor issues. Schivone’s essays, news and analysis have appeared in Mother Jones, The Nation, London Guardian, McClatchy Newspapers, Paris Le…

Rebecca Pierce is a Black and Jewish documentary filmmaker, journalist, and organizer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work focuses on issues of racial justice in the United States, Palestine and Israeli society, highlighting the impact of state violence on marginalized communities. She is a core member of the Jews of Color and Sephardi/Mizrahi…

Gabi Kirk is a PhD student in geography at the University of California Davis. Using critical and feminist methods, her research asks questions about how nature and power interact in settler-colonial contexts, particularly Palestine-Israel and California. She looks at Israel’s military effects on the environment, historically and today. She is particularly interested in the transnational indigenous…

Robin D. G. Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. In addition to seven books on U.S. social movements, social policy, race, and African American politics, culture and art, Kelley has written broadly on Black/Palestinian solidarity, apartheid in Israel, BDS and cultural boycott, and the long history of Black movements…

Rev. Graylan Hagler is a minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Church of Christ who has been engaged in a politically directed progressive ministry for over forty years. He helped to lead the Free South Africa Movement in Boston, MA; has been a leader in the affordable housing arena; and has…

Bill Fletcher, Jr. is the former president of TransAfrica Forum. He is a long-time activist around labor, racial justice and international affairs. He is a syndicated writer and author of two books. Location: Washington, DC Areas of expertise: Historical background; race; labor Click here to contact.

Basma Eid is a first generation Arab-American born to Egyptian immigrants based in Queens, NY.  She currently is the Campaigns and Membership Coordinator at the International Network for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net). She previously served as the National Program Manager at Freedom to Thrive where she supported intersectional abolitionist organizing. She has spent time organizing alongside…