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  • Woman with curly hair, wearing a black blouse with leopard print sleeves, stands against a plain gray background with hands in pockets, smiling gently.

    Lara Aburamadan

    Lara Aburamadan is a Palestinian visual artist, journalist and founder of Refugee Eye. Born and raised in Gaza City, now based in the San Francisco Bay Area,…

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    Ipek S. Burnett

    Ipek S. Burnett, PhD, is a Turkish-American author and scholar who offers a psychological lens on social, cultural, and political issues. She is the author of A…

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    Charmaine Craig

    Charmaine Craig is the author of the novels Miss Burma, longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction; My…

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    Ava DuVernay

    Ava DuVernay is an Academy Award nominee and winner of Emmy, BAFTA, Sundance, Image and Peabody Awards. Her films include Selma, the first film directed by an…

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    Xitlalic Guijosa

    Xitlalic Guijosa (she/her) is a poet, writer, printmaker and community organizer from Southeast Los Angeles. For the past 10 years she’s been part of Alivio open mic…

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    Peter Hamby

    Peter Hamby is an Emmy and Murrow Award-winning political journalist based in Los Angeles. He is a founding partner of Puck News, where he writes about politics,…

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    Rubén Martínez

    Rubén Martínez, is a writer, teacher, and performer. He holds the Fletcher Jones Chair in Literature and Writing at Loyola Marymount University, where he serves the English,…

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  • Daniela Naomi Molnar

    Daniela Naomi Molnar is a poet, artist, and writer who works with color, water, language, and place. She creates paintings using pigments made from plants, bones, stones,…

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    Ben Rhodes

    Ben Rhodes is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, co-host of Pod Save the World, a contributor to MSNBC, and the author of two…

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    Shiori Itō

    Shiori Ito is a journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker. Her primary focus is gender-based human rights issues. In 2020, TIME magazine named her as one of the…

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  • A person with a bald head and goatee is wearing a gray suit with a striped shirt. They are looking at the camera with a slight smile. The background is blurred greenery.

    Héctor Tobar

    Héctor Tobar is a Los Angeles-born author of six books, including, most recently, Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of Latino,…

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    Lynn Vavreck

    Lynn Vavreck is the Marvin Hoffenberg Professor of American Politics and Public Policy at UCLA, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a…

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    D.J. Waldie

    D. J. Waldie is a historian of Los Angeles, a memoirist, and a translator. He has published six non-fiction books. Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir (Norton, 1996…

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