Citations Needed Creators & Guests

Co-host of Citations Needed. Fire spitter. Epaulette liker. Tsundoku master. Clinomaniac. Caine-Hackman Theorist.

Adam Johnson is co-host of @citationspod, writer, and podcasting at @theappeal

Jules Boykoff is an academic, author, and former athlete.

Erin Bartram is a historian of women, gender, religion, and ideas in the 19th century U.S., and a founder and editor of Contingent.

Joyce Ajlouny is a Quaker leader and General Secretary of the American Friends Service Committee. Prior to joining AFSC, Joyce served as director of the Ramallah Friends School, a K-12 Quaker school in Palestine.

Mel Buer is an independent researcher, educator, and freelance movement journalist based in Omaha, Nebraska. She previously reported on local protests and movements during the 2020 uprising and is researching and writing a book on radical media for Or Books.

Nathan Robinson is an editor at Current Affairs and political columnist for The Guardian.

Jacob Silverman is a journalist who reports on about technology and national security for The New Republic.Silverman's work has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, the Los Angeles Times, Bookforum, The Washington Post, and Politico. He also writes for The Baffler, where he is a contributing editor. His first book, "Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection," was published in 2015.

Dr. Jason Hickel is an economic anthropologist, author, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is a Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Jennifer Berkshire is a journalist, and co-author of the book A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door.

Josie Duffy Rice is a lawyer, journalist, and president of The Appeal.

Sharone R. Mitchell Jr. is an attorney, currently serving as the Public Defender of Cook County Illinois. Mitchell is known for advocating justice reform and the end of the cash bail system.Previously, Mitchell was the Director of The Illinois Justice Project, an organization working toward advancing criminal justice policy reform, reducing recidivism, strengthening best practices for alternatives to incarceration and breaking the cycle of crime and violence.Before that, Mitchell was a Defense Attorney for the Cook County Public Defender's Office.Mitchell received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and his J.D. from DePaul University College of Law, where he was President of the Black Law Student Association.

Eoin Higgins is a journalist in New England and author of Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left.

Sam Adler-Bell is a senior policy associate at The Century Foundation. He has a background in journalism, community organizing, and policy advocacy at the intersections of economic justice, race, and civil liberties. As a campaigner with the advocacy group Demand Progress, he coordinated nationwide campaigns to safeguard privacy and Internet freedom in an age of rampant surveillance. His writing on the labor movement, surveillance, and corruption has appeared in The Nation, In These Times, and elsewhere. He holds a BA in American History from Brown University.

Neve Gordon (Hebrew: ניב גורדון; born 1965) is an Israeli professor and academic. He is a professor of international law and human rights at Queen Mary University of London and writes on issues relating to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and human rights. He used to teach at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. A member of Academia for Equality, an organization working to promote democratization, equality and access to higher education for all communities living in Israel.

Author of The Bend of the World, 2014; The Doorposts of Your House and on Your Gates, 2017; A Cool Customer, 2018. Critic, writes frequently about the convergence of politics and culture.

Julia Carmel writes about travel and West Coast experiences for the Los Angeles Times. Since joining the features team in 2022, Carmel has ridden in the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, jet skied nearly 30 miles from Long Beach to Catalina Island, taken a 34-hour-long train ride from L.A. to Seattle, hugged several cows, and wandered America’s largest IKEA while high.They previously worked at the New York Times covering nightlife, culture and queer communities and wrote stories that include an investigation into Subway’s “tuna” sandwiches, a feature on local burlesque performers and a weeks-long interactive project on the return of New York City nightlife. Carmel also worked on the Pulitzer Prize-winning team that covered the global spread of coronavirus.

Maximillian Alvarez is an Editor in Chief at The Real News Network.