Dr. Cornel West is the current holder of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary. In his capacity as professor, Dr. West offers instruction on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Philosophy of Religion, African American Critical Thought, and a wide range of subjects encompassing philosophy, politics, literature, cultural theory, music, and the classics. He served as Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and holds the title of Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard University, graduating Magna Cum Laude in three years, and subsequently received both his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Princeton. Cornel West was the first Black man to receive a Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University in 1980. Dr. West has written 20 books and edited 13 additional volumes.

Judith Butler is a Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School of U.C. Berkeley, and formerly the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. They received a Mellon Foundation grant to found and develop the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs. They were elected members of the executive council of the Modern Languages Association and chaired its Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Responsibilities before serving as president of the organization in 2020. They also teach as the Hannah Arendt Chair at the European Graduate School in Sass Fee, Switzerland.

Adam Tooze is the Shelby Cullom Davis chair of History at Columbia University and serves as Director of the European Institute. In 2019, Foreign Policy Magazine named him one of the top Global Thinkers of the decade. He was Cambridge University’s Reader in Modern History and Gurnee Hart fellow in History at Jesus College. Appointed to the Barton M. Biggs Professorship at Yale University, he succeeded Paul Kennedy as the Director of International Security Studies. He won the Leverhulme prize fellowship, the H-Soz-Kult Historisches Buch Prize, the Longman History Today Prize, the Wolfson Prize, and the LA Times History Prize; his books have featured in the book of the year lists of the Financial Times, LA Times, Kirkus Review, Foreign Affairs, and the Economist. His books have been translated into eleven languages.

Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at the New Yorker, the author of the essay collection Trick Mirror, and a screenwriter. Formerly, she was the deputy editor at Jezebel and a contributing editor at the Hairpin. In 2020, she received a Whiting Award as well as the Jeannette Haien Ballard Prize. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine and Pitchfork, among other places. She lives in Brooklyn. Trick Mirror, published in 2019, was an instant New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize for Best First Book and the PEN America Diamondstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. It was named one of the best books of the year by the New York Public Library, the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, NPR, the Chicago Tribune, GQ, and the Paris Review.

Amitav Ghosh is an award-winning novelist, writer, and thinker whose work defies easy categorization. In 2018, he became the first English-language writer to receive the Jnanpith Award, India's most prestigious literary honor, and, in 2024, he was awarded the Erasmus Prize; he is also a recipient of the Padma Shri prize and the Dan David Prize. His work ranges genres of historical fiction and non-fiction, and spans topics such as colonialism, climate change, displacement, and historical topics such as the Opium Trade. 

Clara Brugada Molina is the Head of Government of Mexico City, a position she has held since October 2024. Previously, Brugada served as mayor of the borough of Iztapalapa. From 1996 to 2017, she held positions in governmental bodies such as the Constituent Assembly of Mexico City, Congress of the Union, and the Congress of Mexico City. She attended the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Iztapalapa from 1980 to 1985, earning a degree in economics.

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