Claire Ruppert is a seasoned educator who dedicated her early career to nurturing young minds as an English teacher at esteemed institutions in Washington, D.C., including Emerson Preparatory, Elizabeth Seton,…

Chase Berggrun is a poet and educator and the author of R E D (Birds LLC, 2018), and the chapbook Somewhere a seagull (After Hours Editions, 2023). Her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, The Nation, American Poetry Review,…

Natalie Jabbar is a California-born writer of Palestinian, Syrian, and Iraqi heritage. She is the associate director of Stanford University’s Public Humanities Initiative, which helps faculty and students engage with…

Saria Rosenhaj (she/they) is a Philadelphia-based writer, educator, and multidisciplinary artist. Saria graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a bachelors in Literatures in English and a minor in creative writing.…

Gopal Dayaneni has been working for social, economic, environmental and racial justice through organizing and campaigning, teaching, writing, speaking and direct action since the late 1980’s. He is a co-founder…

Nora Lester Murad is a writer, educator, and activist. Her novel, “Ida in the Middle” for ages 12+ won the 2023 Arab American Book Award, the 2024 Middle East Book Award, a Skipping Stones Honor…

Nahida Halaby Gordon, PhD, is a Pprofessor emerita in probability and statistics at Case Western Reserve University. She has a deep interest in Palestine, which motivated her to serve as…

Irene Doukas Behrman is a second-year MFA candidate in fiction at the University of New Hampshire in the United States. She holds a BFA in Creative Writing from Portland State University and…

Bisanne Masoud was born in Beirut, Lebanon; her mother is American and her father is from Silat al-Dahr, in the West Bank of Palestine. Shortly after the Israeli invasion of…

Natasha Taghavi is a writer, editor and content strategist with over ten years of experience in her field. Currently digital content editor for an online platform, she manages and edits…

Lynn W. Huber is a social worker and retired social work educator. She offers workshops and retreats and spiritual direction for individuals and groups. Lynn has been actively involved in…

Sonya E Meyerson-Knox is communications manager at Jewish Voice for Peace. Previously, she worked at the United Nations and with grassroots organizations in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, where…