Susan Benesch was trained in Law at Yale and Georgetown Universities. She is a faculty associate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and founder and director of the Dangerous Speech Project. The Project’s website manages and generates resources for the study of violent rhetoric and offers ways to prevent this without infringing on freedom of expression.

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TM Garret is a DJ in Memphis, TN and a former neo-Nazi skinhead/member of a German KKK group. He is now a deradicalization activist in the US, where he has spoken out about how translating fascist screeds affects young people.

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David Gramling is an Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona. As an outgoing co-editor of the interdisciplinary journal Critical Multilingualism Studies, co-author of Linguistic Disobedience: Restoring Power to Civic Language (Palgrave, 2018) and the author of The Invention of Monolingualism (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), he has been a vocal critic of the subtle ways in which presumptions of monolingualism undergird numerous conversations about civic language.

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Aleksandar Hemon is a writer and a Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Lazarus Project (2008), which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award. In November 2018, LitHub published his essay “Fascism Is not am Idea to be Debated, It’s a Set of Actions to Fight.”

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Kim Kelly is an antifascist activist, Teen Vogue's labor columnist, and a regular contributor to The Baffler and The New Republic. Her writing on about politics, labor, and heavy metal for The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Columbia Journalism Review, and The Rolling Stone, among others. In 2019, she organized Black Flags Over Brooklyn, a festival of anti-fascist extreme metal music that received wide press coverage. Her article “Black Metal Has a Real Nazi Problem” (Outline, April 2019) argues that understanding the wide variety of metal subcultures is essential for fighting fascist resurgences in their midst.

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Natasha Lennard is a journalist and essayist. She is a columnist for The Intercept, a contributing editor for Commune Magazine and her work has appeared regularly in The Nation, Esquire, and The New York Times, among others. She teaches critical journalism at the New School For Social Research in New York. She is the author Violence: Humans in Dark Times, with Brad Evans (Citylights, 2018), and Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life (Verso, 2019).

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Michelle Moyd is an Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, an Associate Editor of the American Historical Review, and a scholar of colonial language, militaries, and humanitarianism. She is the author of Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa (Ohio University Press, 2014) and co-author of Linguistic Disobedience: Restoring Power to Civic Language (Palgrave, 2018).

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Jae Nichelle is an editor, writer and a spoken word artist based in Atlanta, GA. She is a multiple poetry slam laureate, and her work has been featured in TRACK//FOUR Journal, Muzzle Magazine, Vinyl Poetry and Prose, Blue Agave Literary Magazine, Freezeray Poetry, The Tulane Review, and Solstice Literary Magazine.

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Vicente Rafael is the Giovanni and Anne Costigan Professor of History at the University of Washington. Among his many books is Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation (Duke University Press, 2016), which sets new benchmarks for historians exploring relationships between language and power and translation and power in colonial and post-colonial settings.

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Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He writes about on
wide range of topics, from the philosophy of language to propaganda. His latest book, How Fascism
Works: The Politics of Us and Them (2018), has been translated into well over a dozen languages worldwide. His next book, Hustle: The Philosophy of Language is forthcoming with
Princeton University Press.

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Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. He is a publisher and a public intellectual who frequently comments on the politics of Spanish in the Americas, Latinx culture and language, and Hispianic-Jewish relations.

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Lynne Tirrell is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut and a faculty affiliate with the Human Rights Institute. She has done pathbreaking work on social effects of hate speech and toxic speech and their prevention. Her article “Genocidal Language Games” (2012) has shaped research in the field and beyond. 

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Heidi Tworek is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945 (Harvard University Press, 2019). She has led several projects on policy approaches to harmful and abusive speech in Canada, the US, and Europe. 

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Christopher Vials is an Associate Professor of English and the Director of American Studies at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Haunted by Hitler: Liberals, the Left, and the Fight against Fascism in the United States (2014) and, with Bill Mullen, The U.S. Antifascism Reader (2020). He researches the cultural work of movements on the political left and political right.

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Moira Weigel holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and Film and Media from Yale University. She is a scholar of feminism and posthumanism and is currently a fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. She co-founded Logic Magazine, a platform for deepening conversations about technology, and frequently comments on ethics in technology in The Guardian and other global news outlets.