Carol Gould is a distinguished professor of philosophy at Hunter College and in the doctoral programs in philosophy and political science at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Dr. Gould is also the Director of the Center for Global Ethics & Politics at the Ralph Bunche Institute, as well as the Editor of the Journal of Social Philosophy.

Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 1,200 public television and radio stations worldwide, including WBAI and CUNY-TV in New York. She is the author of several books, including The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope.

Steven Lukes is the author of numerous books and articles about political and social theory. Currently he is a professor of sociology at New York University. He was  formerly a fellow in politics and sociology at Balliol College, Oxford. He was then, in turn, a professor of political and social theory at the European University Institute, Florence, of  moral philosophy at the University of Siena and of sociology at the London School of Economics.

Robert Basil Talisse is a professor and department chair of philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Professor Talisse has published a number of books on a range of topics including political philosophy, pragmatism, ethics, and democracy.

Michael Menser first started teaching at Brooklyn College as an adjunct in 1995, became full time in 2003, and was tenured in 2009. His current areas of research are environmental ethics and social-political philosophy especially with respect to the food system, bioregionalism, and urban democracy.  His most recent publications are on food sovereignty and he is finishing a book on participatory democracy (PD).