Linda Martín Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and
the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is a past President of the American Philosophical Association. Her areas of work include epistemology, Latin American philosophy, feminism, critical race theory and continental philosophy. Recent books include Rape and Resistance; (Polity 2018); The Future of Whiteness (Polity 2015); Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self (Oxford 2006), which won the Frantz Fanon Award. She has also edited or co-edited 11 books, including The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race (2018); Feminist Epistemologies (1993); Singing in the Fire: Tales of Women in Philosophy (2003); Thinking From the Underside of History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000); Identity Politics Reconsidered (2006); and Constructing the Nation: A Race and Nationalism Reader (2009). She has also written over 100 journal articles and book chapters, and has written for the New York Times, Aeon, the NY Indypendent, and other publications. She is originally from Panama.

Amy Allen is Liberal Arts Professor of Philosophy and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Head of the Department of Philosophy at Penn State. She is the author of four books, including, most recently, Critique on the Couch: Why Critical Theory Needs Psychoanalysis (Columbia University Press, 2021).

Nancy Fraser is Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor at the New School for Social Research and holder of an international research chair at the Collège d’études mondiales, Paris. Trained as a philosopher, she specializes in critical social theory and political philosophy. Fraser’s newest book, forthcoming from Verso in 2021, is Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care and the Planet. Other recent books include Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto, co-authored with Cinzia Arruzza and Tithi Bhattacharya (Verso, 2019 and in 20 other languages); The Old is Dying (Verso, 2019); and Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory, co-authored with Rahel Jaeggi (Polity Press 2018). In these works, Fraser has theorized capitalism’s relation to racial oppression, social reproduction, ecological crisis, feminist movements, and the rise of rightwing populism. These themes are also explored in a series of linked essays in New Left Review, Critical Historical Studies, American Affairs, and in Fortunes of Feminism: From State Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis (2013). Her other books include Transnationalizing the Public Sphere (2014); Scales of Justice (2008); Adding Insult to Injury: Nancy Fraser Debates her Critics (2008); Redistribution or Recognition? A Political-Philosophical Exchange, with Axel Honneth (2003); Justice nterruptus (1997); and Unruly Practices (1989).

María Pía Lara is Full-Time Professor and Researcher at the Department of Philosophy at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Mexico City) since 1983. She received her PHD in Philosophy from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) in 1990. In México, she is member of the National System of Researchers (Level III). She is the author of a number of books, including Beyond the Public Sphere. Film and the Feminist Imaginary (2021); The Disclosure of Politics. Struggles over the Semantics pof Secularization (2013); Narrating Evil. A Postmetaphysical Theory of Reflective Judgement (2007), and Moral Textures. Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere (1998). She has written many articles and book chapters about feminism, secularism, populism, critical theory, conceptual history, and other subjects. She is co-director of the annual Colloquium “Philosophy and Social Sciences”, in the Institut of Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. She is member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Thesis Eleven, and Constellations. She has been visiting scholar and visiting professor at the New School for Social Research (2013/2014, 2009/2010, 2001-2002), the University of Cagliari (2008), the Institute of Social Sciences of University of Western Australia (2005); visiting fellow at the Institute for Research of Women and Gender, Stanford University (1998-1999), and the Institut für Hermeneutik,  Freie Universität Berlin (1994-1995).