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Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party/USA

Joseph Andoni Massad (Arabic: جوزيف مسعد; born 1963) is a Jordanian academic specializing in modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University. His academic work has focused on Palestinian, Jordanian, and Israeli nationalism. Massad is of Palestinian Christian descent. His books include "Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan;" "Desiring Arabs;" "The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians;" and "Islam in Liberalism."

Greg Mello is a founder and Executive Director of the Los Alamos Study Group and has led its varied activities since 1992, including policy research, environmental analysis, congressional education and lobbying, community organizing, litigation (FOIA, civil rights, NEPA), advertising, and the nuts and bolts of funding and running a small nonprofit. From time to time he has served as a consulting analyst, writer, and spokesperson for other nuclear policy organizations. Greg was educated as a systems engineer with a broad scientific background (Harvey Mudd College, 1971, with distinction) and as a regional planner with emphases in environmental planning and regional economics (Harvard, 1975, with distinction, HUD Fellow in Urban Studies). During the early 1980s Greg was a high school science and math teacher, then a hazardous waste inspector and statewide hazardous materials incident commander, and in the late 1980s a supervising hydrogeologist, for the New Mexico Environment Department. In 1984 Greg led the first regulatory enforcement at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). In the early 1990s Greg was a consulting hydrologist in parallel with the early Study Group, with cleanup projects in New Mexico and California. In 2002, Greg was a Visiting Research Fellow at Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security. Greg’s research, analysis, and opinions have been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Issues in Science and Technology, in the New Mexico press, and elsewhere. He has been interviewed thousands of times by U.S. and international news media (print, radio, and television). Greg’s research has been the source or impetus of many of these media articles and programs. In addition to speaking at hundreds of public meetings and events in New Mexico, Greg has been a guest speaker at several international disarmament events here and abroad.

Kathryn Joyce is an author and journalist.Joyce's first book, "Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement," was published in 2009. Her second book, "The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking and the New Gospel of Adoption," was published in 2013.Joyce's freelance writing has appeared in The New York Times, The American Prospect, Slate, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, Pacific Standard, The Nation, Salon, Newsweek, Ms., Religion Dispatches, The Daily Beast, The Harvard Divinity Bulletin, The Massachusetts Review, and Conscience.

Tim Schwab is a freelance journalist. He is known for his investigation into the Gates Foundation.Schwab has reported on the weak public debate surrounding the Gates foundation, the colonial blindspots in Gates's giving, and the dearth of government regulations and oversight over the foundation. His work has appeared in The Nation, Columbia Journalism Review and the British Medical Journal, and represents some of the only investigative journalism ever published on Gates.Schwab received his M.A. in Journalism from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

Paul Caruana Galizia is an editor and reporter.

Emily Atkin is a reporter who writes about climate change and environmental justice. She is the founder of the newsletter HEATED, which provides reporting and analysis on the climate crisis.Previously, Atkin was the climate staff writer at The New Republic, and the deputy climate editor at ThinkProgress. Her work has appeared in Newsweek, Slate, and Mother Jones.