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Kat Aaron is a 26-year-old New Yorker who runs RYSE for Justice, a resource center for youth working for economic justice. Kat is also a media activist and journalist. She is a host and producer with Rise Up Radio, a youth show on WBAI 99.5 FM.
Badr Albanna, 22, is a graduate student currently living in Berkeley, California. Born to an Iraqi father and Palestinian mother, he grew up near Washington DC. As an undergraduate, he was active in the Students for Justice in Palestine as well as efforts to organize students of color.
Doyle Canning, 25, lives in Burlington, Vermont. She works in the core collective of the smartMeme strategy & training project [www.smartmeme.com; 1-866-763-5437], and co-coordinates the STORY youth training program. She is fourth generation Irish-American. When not off rabble rousing, she likes to daydream, share stories, and walk with her dog.
Joya Colon-Berezin was born in 1980 in New York City. Joya graduated from Oberlin College in 2002, with a degree in Sociology. She currently works as a grassroots organizer in the Northwest Bronx and she credits her meditation/spiritual practice for laying the foundation of her social and political activism.
Andy Cornell is an activist and writer attending graduate school in New York City. He has worked in labor, anti-prison, global justice, and other movements for more than a decade; he edits the zine The Secret Files of Captain Sissy. Contact him at: arc280@nyu.edu.
Andrew Curley, a Navajo student at Suffolk University in Boston, works with the United Students for Fair Trade, the Boston Fair Trade Coalition, and the Suffolk Students for Palestine. He co-founded in NM the Student Socialist Coalition, traveled to Nicaragua with USFT, and interned at Global Exchange.
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Chris Dixon (chrisd@resist.ca) is 27, a white, middle-class, straight guy from Anchorage, Alaska, and an anarchist organizer and writer. He was deeply involved in the Seattle WTO protests, helped build the Colours of Resistance network, and is a graduate student in the History of Consciousness program at UC Santa Cruz.
Kaira Espinoza was born and raised in San Francisco, after her parents emigrated from El Salvador. Her passion for social justice blossomed in high school. A San Francisco State University graduate, she is pursuing her teaching credential so that she can make education relevant, interactive, and empowering for young people.
Kevin Etienne-Cummings, 27, was born in Victoria, Mahé, of the Seychelles Islands. He is currently a doctoral student in History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His work focuses on the Southwest islands of the Indian Ocean.
Najah Farley Samad, 24, is an African American Muslim woman. Najah grew up in the Cleveland area with her parents Khalid and Leslie Samad, where she participated in the National Movement for Urban Peace and Justice. She lives in Maryland and is involved with Blackout Arts Collective.
Emma Fialka-Feldman is 16-year-old and lives in Huntington Woods, Michigan. She facilitates Sibshops, a support program for children who have a sibling with disabilities, has published articles and is a contributor to The Sibling Slam Book. She loves to play soccer, the trumpet, laugh, and make the world a better place. (She can be reached at: EmSquaredA88@aol.com)
top Jeffrey Frank, 26, lives in Gainesville, Fl., working as a massage therapist and teacher at the Florida Institute of Somatic Health. With a rich history in community organizing and political action, Jeffrey brings ideas of community, freedom, and peace into a non-hierarchal teaching environment, which fosters learning and individual development.
Stephen Funk enlisted in the military at 19, looking for a sense of purpose. Instead, he found it in the antiwar movement, becoming the first conscientious objector to the Iraq war and, subsequently, serving nine months in a military prison. He is now 22 and lives in San Francisco.
Peter Gelderloos is a twenty-two-year-old anarchist organizing in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He focuses on anti-oppression work, prisoner support, and local groups like Harrisonburg Copwatch and Food Not Bombs. Peter is an editor for the online radical library, www.signalfire.org.
Jonah Gindin is a 24 year-old Canadian activist living and writing in Caracas, Venezuela. He writes regularly for www.venezuelanalysis.com. His articles have also appeared in NACLA Report on the Americas, Canadian Dimension, Relay, and Monthly Review, among others. He can be reached at Jonah@venezuelanalysis.com.
Stephanie Guilloud is a white, middle class queer from Houston. An organizer of the Seattle WTO shutdown, Stephanie edited an anthology of first-hand accounts. She also edited Through the Eyes of the Judged, incarcerated young men’s autobiographies. She works as a popular educator & organizer with Project South in Atlanta.
Nell Hirschmann-Levy, 25, was born to politically active parents in New York City. Struggles for social justice have always been central to her life. She now lives and organizes in Oakland, CA, with SEIU and is devoted to finding creative ways for us to support one another’s efforts.
top Walidah Imarisha, a 25-year-old Philly resident, is a spoken word sista and political poet. Part of the Human Rights Coalition, prisoners’ families against the prison industrial complex, she helped found AWOL Magazine, the poetry duo Good Sista/Bad Sista, and hopes to help found an autonomous anti-state someday soon.
Chloe Cook Joy is a ten-year-old activist in Gainesville, Florida. She publishes a zine called Thomasina. She quit public school in the 2nd grade and is now a student of the Gainesville Street School. Jcjoy13@yahoo.com.
Matan Kaminer, 22, from Tel-Aviv, was one of the founders of the 2002 High School Students’ refusal letter, and went to prison for his refusal to serve in the IDF in December 2002. Put on trial with four other refuseniks, he spent 21 months in confinement. He now lives in Jerusalem.
Samuel D. Kass, 24, Chicago IL. Member of NOWARIRAQ, resisting both wars against Iraq. Continuing work towards health and education for future activists.
Anna Rosario Kennedy, 19, is a sophomore at George Washington University in Washington DC. Anna attended Chapin and Riverdale Country School in NYC where she was president of the Amnesty International club and chaired a school-wide seminar on the death penalty. For her work she received the Zonta International Service Award.
Ismail Khalidi, 22, is a writer and actor currently completing his final year at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN. Born to Palestinian parents in Beirut, Ismail grew up in Chicago. His work combines poetry, drama, music, photography, and film. He has written for the Electronic Intifada (electronicintifada.net) and Mizna.
top Tiffany King, 28, is an African American activist, educator, and writer living in Wilmington, Delaware. She is currently working with students in Wilmington’s public Vocational and Technical High Schools, doing organizing work with women in “public” and federally subsidized housing, and is the founder of Resistahs.
Michelle Kuo, 23, teaches high school English in Helena, Arkansas, for Teach for America. A Truman Scholar, Michelle graduated from Harvard College, where she directed a homeless shelter and edited Diversity and Distinction magazine. Michelle earned a masters at Cambridge and worked with anti-domestic violence groups in Kenya and China. mkuo@post.harvard.edu
Nilda Laguer, a 29-year-old Nuyrorican, grew up in BK and has been resisting ever since. She has been part of developing projects like Bronx PrYde in the Boogie Down and Urban Mana in BK. She is a writer, poet, resister, hoper, prayer, and a magic bean buyer.
Khary Lazarre-White, 31, born and raised in New York City, co-founded The Brotherhood/Sister Sol (www.brotherhood-sistersol.org) in 1995. A comprehensive, holistic youth organization in Harlem, it provides rites-of-passage programs, after-school care, study in Africa and Latin America, activist training, summer camps, jobs, artistic development, and personal counseling to 200 youth a year.
Dara Levy-Bernstein, 15, was born in Brooklyn, and moved to Albany, New York, when she was three years old. She spent her second and third grade years living in Jerusalem, Israel. She is a member of Hashomer Hatzair and will be attending Simon’s Rock College of Bard in the fall.
Arthur Liou, 26, is a Chinese-American activist in Oakland, CA. He is a former union organizer and a member of the socialist organization Solidarity. He is currently studying at the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Law, Boalt Hall.
top Andrea Listenberger, age 18, is a 2005 graduate of Canterbury High School, located in her hometown of Fort Wayne, Indiana. A human rights activist, she served as the Indiana Student Area Coordinator for Amnesty International, working on issues including abolishing the death penalty and the crisis in Sudan.
Ashley Lucas is a twenty-five-year-old activist, academic, playwright, and actor from El Paso, Texas. She does prison-related organizing with Families to Amend the California Three Strikes (FACTS) and All of Us or None, and she is an outside supporter of the Angola Human Relations Club.
Mervyn Marcano is a Blackfag working, living, and making art in Brooklyn. He has organized nationwide around issues of police brutality, gentrification, and public space. He is also the co-founder of several art collectives. He is currently focusing on being a filmmaker and is working on his next piece.
Not4Prophet, a 27-year-old Nueva York native, is the voice of puerto punx political collective Ricanstruction, spoken noise experi-mental duo Renegades of Punk, and hip hop hybrids x-vandals. For years he has supported all aspects of people’s struggle and is fond of throwing stones at corporate castles.
Sara Marie Ortiz, 22, is from Acoma Pueblo, resides in Santa Fe, and is a full-time student in creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts. The youngest daughter of Acoma Pueblo poet/laureate/professor Simon J. Ortiz, she would like to become the president of the Institute of American Indian Arts.
Laurel Paget-Seekins, 25, lives in Atlanta and volunteers at the Dekalb Rape Crisis Center. Involved in the movement to close the School of the Americas (by any name) for eight years, Laurel is a member of the Sexual Offense Prevention and Response Team and the Anti-Oppression and Accessibility Working Group.
top Eboo Patel, 29, is the Founder and Executive Director of the Interfaith Youth Core, that brings young people from diverse religious communities together in programs that build understanding and encourage cooperative service to others. He earned his doctorate in the Sociology of Religion from Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship.
Gerardo Reyes Chavez—originally from Zacatecas, Mexico—is a 27-year-old farmworker living in southwest Florida and a member of the CIW. He has spoken at colleges, conferences, churches, and mass mobilizations across the country on farmworker issues, corporate globalization, and social change. He can be contacted at Gerardo@ciw-online.org.
Guadalupe Patricia Xochihuiztli Salcedo is a 24-year-old Xicana, is completing her Masters in Social Welfare, and lives in Los Angeles, CA. She has worked with several immigrant and indigenous rights based non-profit organizations in California, Arizona, and Mexico, and will continue to struggle for social justice.
Gabriel Olga Khougaz Sayegh, 29, works to eliminate prisons and end the war on drugs. A queer Arab/European-American, gabriel grew up in the small farmtown world of California’s gorgeous central valley and now lives in Brooklyn, where the farm landscape has been traded for a brick and steel skyline. gabrielsayegh@gmail.com
Eugene Schiff, 23, is from Chicago, and was educated in the city’s public schools through high school. He studied history at Tufts University. In 2004 he completed a ten-month Fulbright research fellowship in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and is currently the Caribbean Region Coordinator for the Agua Buena Human Rights Association.
Sarah Stillman, 21, enjoys rabble-rousing with groups like the Student Legal Action Movement, Critical Resistance, and the Yale Coalition for Peace. She edits MANIFESTA, a bi-annual feminist journal, and is writing a collection of essays about corporate globalization’s consequences for young women worldwide.
top Myron Strong, 28, is a Ph.D. student at the University of North Texas studying sociology with an emphasis on race and gender. He has written an award-winning column in college that focused on social issues and systematic oppressions. He has dedicated his life to activism and to the struggle for equality.
Marian Yalini Thambynaygam, 27, a queer British-born, American-bred, Sri Lankan Tamil woman livin’ in Brooklyn by way of Texas. She lives in borderlands where poetry is theater is love is movement is song is prayer is rebellion. She looks to reshape reality seeking peace through justice in lands of earth, psyche, spirit, and dream.
Rebecca Trotzky-Sirr (rebexxx@gmail.com) is 26 and lives in Minneapolis. She is a first year medical student, organizes & writes about reproductive freedom & family justice. Soon Rebecca will mend broken hearts & arms at your local free clinic. Her 6-year-old son wants her to work in a candy shop, instead.
Ella Turenne, 27, is an artist, activist, and educator. She is currently working on her second book, an anthology of short fiction by Haitian women. She is a member of the Blackout Arts Collective, the Movement of Independent Haitian for National Reconstruction, and co-founder of SistaPAC Productions. Visit www.blackwomyn.com for more information.
Jessica Vasquez, 21, born in Tulare, California, is a 4th year undergraduate at UC Berkeley and community activist with the grassroots organization TOJIL/XMC, Bay Area. Currently, she is a research assistant for Xicana activist, author, and educator Elizabeth Martinez. Concerned about youth’s lives, she fasted 26 days to improve education.
Marc Washington, 31, is a husband and father to his two-year-old daughter Mia. Marc’s roots are in the Bronx and Queens, NY. His activism inspired ABC’s 20/20 to produce a feature named Street Miracles chronicling the work that happens at Friends of Island Academy.
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