Raj Patel is a Research Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affair at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the co-author of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (University of California Press, 2018)

Christopher M. Kelty is a Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Two Bits (Duke University Press, 2008) and The Participant (University of Chicago Press, 2019).  His current work is the Labyrinth Project (labyrinth.garden),  a multi-disciplinary collaborative research inquiry into  conflict and controversy in urban ecologies in Los Angeles.

Andrew Lakoff is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Southern California, where he also directs the Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life. His most recent book is Planning for the Wrong Pandemic (Polity, 2024).

Keren Reichler is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Rice University. Her research focuses on agricultural technologies and climate change in California and Argentina. 

Townsend Middleton is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His most recent book is Quinine’s Remains: Empire’s Medicine and the Life Thereafter (University of California Press, 2024).

Stephen J. Collier is a Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.

Nicole Starosielski is an Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.