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Cliff Albright is a cofounder of Black Voters Matter Fund (and BVM Capacity Building Institute) which builds community and organizational capacity related to Black voting power. BVM received national attention in 2017 when they helped mobilize Black voters during the U.S. Senate race between Doug Jones and Roy Moore. In 2018, Cliff and the BVM team travelled throughout seven southern states in “The Blackest Bus in America” energizing voters and exposing voter suppression. Cliff has contributed articles to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian and several other outlets. He also hosts a weekly radio show in Atlanta and has served as an instructor of African-American Studies at several universities.
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Ari Berman is a senior reporter at Mother Jones, covering voting rights. He’s the author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America. He has written extensively about American politics, civil rights, and the intersection of money and politics. His stories have also appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and The Guardian, and he is a frequent guest and commentator on MSNBC and NPR.
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V.L. Cox is a professional artist of 30 years whose work has been highly active in projects that involve Human Rights and Equality. In 2020, Cox was one of twenty artists in the nation to be featured in "Ministry of Truth: 1984/2020,” a New York City billboard project which made the New York Times “Most Important Moments in Art in 2020” list. Cox just wrapped up her second exhibition 'Watchfires' at the Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery, Alabama and opens ‘Bending the Arc’ November 16th at the Annex Gallery at the Pendleton Art Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Hasia Diner is the Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University, with joint appointment in the department of history and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies. She is also director of the Goldstein Goren Center for American Jewish History. She has built her scholarly career around the study of American Jewish history, American immigration and ethnic history, and the history of American women. She has written about the ways in which American Jews in the early twentieth century reacted to the issue of race and the suffering of African Americans, and the process by which American Jews came to invest deep meaning in New York's Lower East Side. She is the author of We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust, winner of a National Jewish Book Award and the American Jewish Historical Society's Saul Viener Prize, and Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migration to the New World and the Peddlers Who Led the Way, a global history of Jewish peddling and Jewish migrations.
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Jean Rohe writes one-of-a-kind narrative songs, concerned as much with the interior lives of her narrators as with the wider sociopolitical forces that shape their lives. Her work is both personal and timely, the product of nearly two decades of practice in New York's wide-ranging music, art, and activist communities.
Co-sponsored by: 20/20 Vision, A Little Piece of Light, American Sustainable Business Network, Avodah, Black Voters Matter, Blue Future, Center for Common Ground, Center for Disability Rights, Center for Law & Social Justice, Coalition for the People's Agenda, DC Vote, DemCast USA, Dutchess County Progressive Action Alliance, Equal Citizens, Free Speech For People, Hispanic Federation, Indivisible Nation BK, Jewish Community Action, Jews for a Secular Democracy, March On, National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities, National Association of Social Workers, National Council of Jewish Women, National Organization for Women, New American Leaders Action Fund, New York Civil Liberties Union, New York Jewish Agenda, NYU Democracy Project, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Public Citizen, Public Wise, Putnam Progressives, Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, Rising Organizers, Sholem Community, T’ruah, Un-PAC, Upper West Side Action Group, Vote Early New York, Wisconsin Faith Voices for Justice
