Ajamu Nangwaya, Ph.D., is an organizer, writer and educator. Ajamu is a lecturer in the Institute of Caribbean Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus and his areas of research interests are Rastafari ital livity and economic and social development, labour self-management and worker cooperatives, gender, development and social justice, music/the arts as a transformative force, and anarchism and participatory democracy. He is the co-editor with Dr. Michael Truscello of the recently published anthology Why Don’t The Poor Rise Up?: Organizing the Twenty-First Century Resistance. Ajamu is also the co-editor with Kali Akuno of the publication Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi. He worked for a number of years with the American South-based Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund as a cooperative educator and developer. He was a participant at the founding conference of the United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives and was elected to its first board of directors.

John Clarke first became involved in anti-poverty struggles in 1983 when he helped form the Union of Unemployed Workers in London, Ontario. Since 1990, he has worked as an organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP). 

Sara Sagaii is an Iranian housing and anti-war activist and a graduate student in the SFU School of Communication. She has organized against demovictions and for tent cities. She was a coordinator on the Jean Swanson for City Hall 2017 by-election campaign and is currently on the steering committee of the Vancouver Tenants Union.

Samir Gandesha is an Associate Professor in the Department of the Humanities and the Director of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University. He specializes in modern European thought and culture, with a particular emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. His work has appeared in Political Theory, New German Critique,  Constellations Logos, Kant Studien, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Topia, the European Legacy, the European Journal of Social Theory, Art Papers, the Cambridge Companion to Adorno and Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader as well as in several other edited books. He is co-editor with Lars Rensmann of Arendt and Adorno: Political and Philosophical Investigations (Stanford, 2012). He is co-editor (with Johan Hartle) of Spell of Capital: Reification and Spectacle (University of Amsterdam Press, 2017) and Aesthetic Marx (Bloomsbury Press, 2017) also with Johan Hartle. In the Spring of 2017, he was the Liu Boming Visiting Scholar in Philosophy at the University of Nanjing and Visiting Lecturer at Suzhou University of Science and Technology in China.