Mayra Cotta is a Brazilian lawyer, activist and PhD candidate at the Politics Department at the New School for Social Research, in New York. Her scholarly interests include Political Theory and Philosophy, History of Political Thought and History of Ideas, Feminist and Critical Theory, Legal Theory, Capitalism Studies and Marxism. For her dissertation, she is investigating order as a central idea in Politics, looking into how and why the concept not only became a fundamental value in political theory, but also came to acquire distinct meanings over time. Her research has been supported by the Prize Fellowship at NSSR and by the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies.

Elif Genc is a PhD student in Politics at the New School for Social Research and an Adjunct Professor at Marymount College in Middle Eastern politics. She also teaches Western
political thought and revolutionary theory at St. John’s University. She is also an activist in the
Kurdish women's social movement in Canada and the USA. She has worked closely for years with
the Kurdish diaspora and has recently been researching on the oral histories and lived experiences of Kurdish refugees in Toronto particularly focusing on the past violence and trauma of the women
of the community. Her current research interests focus on the women guerrilla of the Kurdish social movement and the role that violence plays in contemporary armed struggle and in bringing about social and political change  -- specifically the role that women are playing in these armed movements against state totalitarianism and dictatorship.

An Haitian-born, French Afrofeminist organizer, thinker, and writer. Fania is an experienced organizer in grassroots movements against racism, specifically anti-Blackness and Black feminism in France. In addition to being part of the MWASI – Collectif Afroféministe, and Coordination Action Autonome Noire (C.A.A.N), she is the co-creator of the Decolonial Summer Camp, a five-day anti-racism training course in France. In 2014, she founded Revue AssiégéEs (Besieged), a political publishing project led by women, queer and trans people of color, I am the actual publication director. In 2019 my book Afro-Communautaire: Appartenir à nous-mêmes (Afro-Community: To Belong to Ourselves) has been published by Syllepse Edition (a french radical publishing house). The impetus of this small manifesto is an afro-revolutionary and anti-imperialist utopia for the political organization of Black people in France against racial politics and neo-liberalism.

In Fall 2020, she is a PhD student in sociology at The New School for Social Research (New-York, NY), her area of research are Africana studies, critical race theory, Black feminism, materialist feminism and capitalism studies.

Marianna Poyares is a Brazilian scholar and activist currently based in the U.S, working with immigrants' rights social movements and transnational solidarity. She is an active member of the NYC Sanctuary Coalition, and works with other grassroots organizations throughout the Americas (North and South) committed to an expanded vision of sanctuary. She is currently a PhD student in Philosophy at The New School for Social Research and a fellow at the Zolberg Institute, where she researches on abolitionism within the context of immigration. Her academic research is currently funded by the Mellon Foundation.