The Beautiful Idea Creators & Guests

Brad Thomson is a Civil Rights and Criminal Defense Attorney at Peoples Law Office.

Natasha Lennard is a journalist, author, columnist, and writer.

Eric King is an anarchist political prisoner and poet.

Amanda Moore is a journalist.

Dean Spade is a lawyer, writer, and associate professor of law.

Kamau Franklin is a writer, lawyer, and community activist.

Keri Leigh Merritt is a historian, writer, and author of Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South.

Cody Johnston is the host of Even More News and a formed Cracked personality

Peter Gelderloos is an anarchist, activist, and writer.

Lee Camp is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actor, and activist. He is the host of the weekly comedy news show Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp on RT America.

Raven Geary is a writer, journalist, and photographer.

Daryle Lamont Jenkins is a political activist and Executive Director of One People's Project.

Adrienne Maree Brown is a writer, organizer, emergent strategist, podcast co-host, women's rights activist, black feminist, and author of the book Pleasure Activism.

Kit O’Connell is a journalist.

Shane Burley is a writer, filmmaker, and union organizer based in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse (AK Press, 2021) and Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It (AK Press, 2017), and editor of the anthology ¡No pasarán!: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis (IAS/AK Press, 2022). His work has appeared in places such as NBC News, Jacobin, Al Jazeera, The Baffler, The Daily Beast, Truthout, In These Times and Protean.

Cerise Castle is a freelance reporter.

Katy Stoll is an actress and producer. She is also known for her work with Cracked and the podcast Some More News.

Paul O’Banion is a anarchist and antifascist organizer.