Anand Gopal: Anand Gopal is a journalist and author of No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban and the War Through Afghan Eyes. His book was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize and for the 2014 National Book Award. Gopal has served as an Afghanistan correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and Atlantic

Naomi Klein: Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the international bestsellers No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, and most recently This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate.

Jeremy Scahill: Jeremy Scahill is a founding editor of The Intercept. He is an investigative reporter, war correspondent, and author of the international bestselling books Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield

Owen Jones is a columnist at the Guardian and formerly at the Independent, and the author of Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class. His new book, The Establishment - And How They Get Away With It, was published in September 2014. He was the winner of the 2012 Stonewall Journalist of the Year

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. Her articles have been published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, Jacobin, New Politics, The Black Commentator, Black Agenda Report, Ms. Magazine among other publications. Taylor is Assistant Professor in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University.