William Catton Jr. is a sociologist known for his work in environmental sociology and human ecology. He is the author of Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change. His most recent book is Bottleneck: Humanity’s Impending Impasse.
Jane Caputi is a professor of American studies at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of The Age of Sex Crime; Gossips, Gorgons and Crones: The Fates of the Earth; and Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture.
Riki Ott is a marine toxicologist, author, and former commercial fisher. She is the author of Sound Truth and Corporate Myth$: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill and Not One Drop: Promises, Betrayal, and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.
Nora Barrows-Friedman is a freelance journalist currently based in the West Bank and California. She was a senior producer for one of Pacifica Radio’s flagship shows, Flashpoints.
Gail Dines is a professor of sociology and women’s studies at Wheelock College in Boston, an internationally acclaimed speaker and author, and a feminist activist. She is the author of Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality.
Thomas Linzey is a public interest attorney and the executive director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, a nonprofit law firm that has provided free legal services to over five hundred local governments and nonprofits since 1995. He is also a cofounder of the Daniel Pennock Democracy School. Linzey is the author of Be the Change: How to Get What You Want in Your Community.
Waziyatawin is a Dakota writer, teacher, and activist committed to the development of liberation strategies that will support the recovery of Indigenous ways of being, the reclamation of Indigenous homelands, and the eradication of colonial institutions. She is most recently the author of What Does Justice Look Like? The Struggle for Liberation in Dakota Homeland.
Lierre Keith is a writer, radical feminist, food activist, and environmentalist. Her book The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability has been called “the most important ecological book of this generation.” Her most recent work is Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet, with Aric McBay and Derrick Jensen.
Stephanie McMillan is an award-winning cartoonist, the creator of the daily comic strip “Minimum Security.” Her most recent book is The Beginning of the American Fall: A Comics Journalist Inside the Occupy Wall Street Movement. She has also coauthored several books with Derrick Jensen, including As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial and The Knitting Circle Rapist Annihilation Squad. She is an organizer for One Struggle, an anticapitalist/anti-imperialist collective.
Aric McBay is an activist and small-scale farmer. He is the author of Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet, with Lierre Keith and Derrick Jensen, and What We Leave Behind, with Derrick Jensen.
Arundhati Roy is an Indian novelist and activist. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel, The God of Small Things. Her most recent work is Walking with the Comrades.
Derrick Jensen is an award-winning activist, philosopher, and writer. Derrick is one of the most important voices of the environmental movement. His books include A Language Older than Words; The Culture of Make Believe; and Endgame, Volumes I and II.