Consultant

The Golden Globes were just this weekend and we FEATURE Nancy Wang Yuen, Ph.D. Nancy is a sociology professor at Biola University. Her book, Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism (2016, Rutgers University Press), examines the barriers actors of color face in Hollywood and how they creatively challenge stereotypes. She is a sought-after expert on race and media by news outlets such as the Associated Press and the New Republic and has appeared in Buzzfeed videos, documentaries and radio/podcast shows. Media includes: Rutgers University Press, Huffington Post, Advise Show Media.

Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy (Asst Professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies)

With both Russia and Donald Trump commenting on allegations of Russian involvement and hacking in the election, we FEATURE E. Gabriella Coleman. Professor Gabriella Coleman is the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University. Trained as an anthropologist, she teaches, writes, and researches on the ethics of computer hacking with a focus on open source software and the protest ensemble Anonymous. She is the author of Coding Freedom: the Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking published in 2012 with Princeton University Press and is currently working on a second book on the digital protest ensemble Anonymous. She regularly comments on digital activism, surveillance, free speech and censorship on the news. Media includes: NPR, CNN, CBC, PBS, New York Times.

Writer, consultant/Self-employed; Take Back the Tech! Global Coordinator/Association for Progressive Communications

To discuss Martin Shkreli's suspension from Twitter for harassing a journalist, we FEATURE Sara Baker. Sara is a writer and consultant who works for the Association for Progressive Communications as the global coordinator of Take Back the Tech!, a collaborative campaign to encourage women to use technology to counter gender-based violence. Under her coordination, Take Back the Tech! received a Bobs People's Choice Award for Best Online Activism in English, the inaugural GEM-TECH Award from the International Telecommunications Union and UN Women for Efforts to Reduce Threats Online and Building Women's Confidence and Security in the Use of ICTs, and a Prix Ars Honorary Mention for Digital Communities. Media includes: Washington Post, Time, Guardian, CNN, O Globo.

Director of Campaigns

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is coming up this Monday and, to commemorate, we FEATURECeleste Faison. Celeste is the Black Organizer Cordinator at National Domestic Workers Alliance and co-founder of the Blackout Collective. She is a community organizer and direct action trainer. Cutting her teeth as a youth organizer, she was the lead organizer at Youth together and the co-director of Project Fame, an in-school, and after school program that taught Black history, literature, algebra, organizing and the arts, in Alabama public schools. Media includes: KPFS, NBC News, AlterNet, USA Today, San Francisco Bay View, Tides Blog, Metroactive Music.