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Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul

Alejandra Ibarra is a Mexican journalist and author. In 2018, she received a Magic Grant from The Brown Institute for Media Innovation with which she created Democracy Fighters, a living archive that preserves the work of journalists killed in Mexico. She subsequently launched the archive as an interactive platform and currently directs the project as a space of memory and storytelling tool. After launching Democracy Fighters, she began Voces Silenciadas, a documentary podcast linked to the archive that tells stories about freedom of expression in Mexico. Alejandra is the author of El Chapo Guzmán: The Trial of the Century, a chronicled narrative and personal essay about the trial against the infamous Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán. She attempts to understand, document and expose social injustice.

Leah Batstone

Leah Batstone is a musicologist focusing on the intersections of music and social and political change, with expertise in fin-de-siècle Austria and 20th-century Ukraine. Her doctorate was completed at McGill University in 2019 and her dissertation examined the relationship between composer Gustav Mahler and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. In 2015-16, she was the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship for dissertation research in Vienna. Her work has also been supported by the Center for Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center and the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko. She serves on the editorial board of Artistic Culture Topical Issues, the journal of the Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, and is a member of the Gustav Mahler Society of New York. She teaches music history at Hunter College.

Moustafa Bayoumi

Moustafa Bayoumi is the author of the critically acclaimed How Does It Feel To Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America (Penguin), which won an American Book Award and the Arab American Book Award for Non-Fiction. His latest book, This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror, was chosen as a Best Book of 2015 by The Progressive magazine and was also awarded the Arab American Book Award for Non-Fiction. Bayoumi is also the co-editor (with Andrew Rubin) of The Edward Said Reader (Vintage), which has been reissued in an expanded edition as The Selected Works of Edward Said (1966-2006). He also edited Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: the Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict (O/R Books & Haymarket Books). A frequent contributor to The Guardian, Bayoumi has also written for The New York Times Magazine, New York magazine, The Nation, CNN.com, The London Review of Books, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and many other places. He is Professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY).