Dan Denvir is the host of The Dig podcast (Jacobin) and the author of All-American Nativism (Verso Books). Denvir is a former staff writer at Salon and the Philadelphia City Paper, former writer in residence at The Appeal, and former contributing writer at The Atlantic’s CityLab. Denvir’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, Vox, Jacobin, The Guardian's Comment Is Free, Al Jazeera America, VICE, and The New Republic.

Aslı Ü. Bâli is a professor of law at Yale Law School. Her teaching and research focus on public international law—particularly human rights law—and comparative constitutional law, with a focus on the Middle East. Her scholarship has appeared in numerous law reviews and social science peer-reviewed journals, and she is the co-editor of two volumes from Cambridge University Press. She has also published essays and op-eds in such venues as The New York Times, Boston Review, The London Review of Books, Jacobin, and Dissent. Before joining academia, she worked for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Bâli currently serves as president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, co-chair of the advisory board for the Middle East Division of Human Rights Watch, and as a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.

Aziz Rana is a professor of law at Boston College Law School, where his research and teaching center on American constitutional law and political development. In particular, his work focuses on how shifting notions of race, citizenship, and empire have shaped legal and political identity since the nation’s founding. Rana’s first book, The Two Faces of American Freedom, situates the American experience within the global history of colonialism. His most recent book, The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them, explores the modern emergence of constitutional veneration in the twentieth century—especially against the backdrop of growing American global authority—and how veneration has influenced the boundaries of popular politics. Rana has written essays and op-eds for such venues as n+1, The Boston Review, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Dissent, New Labor Forum, Jacobin, The Guardian, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Nation, Jadaliyya, Salon, and The Law and Political Economy Project.

Don Guttenplan is editor of The Nation. He previously covered the 2016 election as the magazine’s editor-at-large and, for two decades before that, was part of its London bureau. He has taught American history at University College and at Birkbeck College, and is a frequent commentator on American culture and politics on the BBC. (Photo credit: Brilliance Audio)

Lisa Borst is the web editor of n+1, a print and digital magazine of literature, culture, and politics. She has written essays and criticism for n+1 about contemporary fiction and film, zine culture, and the television show Emily in Paris. Her writing also appears in Bookforum, The Nation, BOMB, and elsewhere.

Nora Caplan-Bricker is a writer and critic and the executive editor of Jewish Currents. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Nation, the "Best American" series, and many other publications.

Alex Han is executive director of In These Times. He has organized with unions, in the community, and in progressive politics for two decades. In addition to serving as Midwest political director for Bernie 2020, he has worked to amplify the power of community and labor organizations at Bargaining for the Common Good, served as a vice president of SEIU Healthcare Illinois and Indiana for over a decade, and helped to found United Working Families, an independent political organization in Illinois that has elected dozens of working-class leaders to city, state, and federal office. Most recently he was executive editor of Convergence magazine.

Sarah Leonard is the founder and editor-in-chief of Lux magazine. She is a contributing editor to Dissent and The Nation, and her writing has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Republic, and elsewhere.

Rachel Shabi has reported extensively on Israel/Palestine and the wider Middle East, including the war between Lebanon and Israel in 2006, the Gaza war of 2008, and the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. Now London-based and covering current affairs, her work appears in the Guardian, The New York Times, The Independent, The New York Review of Books, Prospect, and The Nation, among other publications. Her previous book, Not the Enemy: Israel’s Jews from Arab Lands, received a US National Jewish Book award. Her forthcoming book, Off-White: The Truth About Antisemitism, is out in November. (Photo credit: Habie Schwarz)

Julia Bosson is a writer and editor based in Berlin. She is editor-in-chief of The Diasporist, a new magazine of German politics and culture, and co-leader of the Berlin Jewish writer’s collective Die Sammlung. The recipient of grants from the Fulbright Program, DAAD, and the MFJC, she is currently at work on a novel about the life and journalism of Joseph Roth.

Sarah Benichou is an independent journalist; a member of Youpress, a collective of independent journalists; and a member of the editorial board of the leading French feminist magazine La Déferlante. Benichou focuses her investigations on the far-right, state violence, colonialism, and racism in France, the country where she was born. From Brazil to Israel/Palestine, and through Tunisia, Benichou also documents the creative resistances to imperialism led by women and gender minorities. With her background in history and political science, she produces critical work on Holocaust memorialization policies in France and Europe and works to shed light on the forgotten trajectories of North African Jews, which resonate with her own Algerian family heritage. Benichou is a board member of AJAR, the only anti-racist organization for nonwhite journalists in France, created in March 2023.

Leo Ferguson is the director of strategic projects at Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ). He is the founder of JFREJ’s Jews of Color caucus, was a lead organizer of the Jews of Color National Convening, and is a primary author of JFREJ’s flagship resource, Understanding Antisemitism. Ferguson is a graduate of the Grace Paley Organizing Fellowship, The Bend the Arc Selah Fellowship, and the JOIN Don’t Kvetch, Organize Masterclass; a proud Jew of Color; and a musician.

Benjamin Seroussi is a French-born, São Paulo-based curator, editor and cultural manager. He works as executive director of the Casa do Povo, a Jewish Brazilian autonomous art space. Seroussi holds a masters in sociology from Ecole Normale Supérieure and Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and a masters in cultural management from Sciences-Po Paris. He was deputy director at Centro da Cultura Judaica in São Paulo from 2009–2012; associate curator of the 31st Bienal de São Paulo, How To (…) Things That Don’t Exist (2014) with Charles Esche, Galit Eilat, Luiza Proença, Nuria Enguita Mayo, Oren Sagiv and Pablo Lafuente; chief curator of Vila Itororó Canteiro Aberto in São Paulo from 2014–2017; and regional coordinator of COINCIDÊNCIA, the exchange program for South America of the Swiss Art Council Pro Helvetia from 2017–2019. He lectures regularly on curating and cultural management. (Photo credit: Yael Bartana)

David Naimon is a writer and host of the literary podcast Between the Covers. He is the co-author, with Ursula K. Le Guin, of Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing, and his own writing has received a Pushcart prize, been reprinted in The Best Small Fictions and Best Spiritual Literature, and been cited in Best American Essays and Best American Mystery and Suspense. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Adania Shibli was born in Palestine in 1974. Shibli has written novels, plays, short stories, and narrative essays. Her first two novels appeared in English as Touch, translated by Paula Haydar, and We Are All Equally Far from Love, translated by Paul Starkey. Shibli was awarded the Young Writer’s Award by the A. M. Qattan Foundation in 2002 and 2004. Her latest novel, Minor Detail, was shortlisted for the National Book Award in 2020, and in 2021 it was longlisted for the International Booker Prize. Shibli is also engaged in academic research and teaching at different universities across Europe, as well as at Birzeit University, Palestine (2012–2018).

Dionne Brand is the award-winning author of 23 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Brand is the recipient of numerous literary prizes, among them the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Toronto Book Award, the Trillium Book Prize, the OCM Bocas Prize, and the 2021 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. She is the editorial director of Alchemy, an imprint of Knopf Canada, and university professor emerita at the University of Guelph. She lives in Toronto, Canada. (Photo credit: Jason Chow)

Fargo Nissim Tbakhi is a queer Palestinian American performance artist and writer. He is the winner of the Ghassan Kanafani Resistance Arts Prize, a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, and a Taurus. He has received fellowships from Rhizome DC, VisArts, Desert Nights Rising Stars, Halcyon Arts Lab, Mosaic Theater, and RAWI. His writing appears in Foglifter, Mizna, Peach Mag, Apex Magazine, Strange Horizons, The Shallow Ends, Prolit, and select bags of Nomadic Grounds Coffee. His performance work has been programmed at OUTsider Fest, INTER-SECTION Solo Fest, the Rachel Corrie Foundation’s Shuruq Festival, the Alwun House Monster’s Ball, and Mosaic Theater, and has been supported by the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Tbakhi is Jewish Currents's inaugural artist-in-residence.

Alex Kane is the senior reporter at Jewish Currents.

Zane Dangor currently serves as the director-general of the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) for the South African government. Dangor and DIRCO helped lead South Africa’s case charging Israel with war crimes at the International Court of Justice.

Daniel Levy is the president of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), which emphasizes the Palestine–Israel issue alongside regional conflicts, trends, and geopolitics. From 2012 to 2016, Levy was director for the Middle East and North Africa at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to that he was a senior fellow and director of the New America Foundation’s Middle East Taskforce in Washington, DC and a senior fellow at The Century Foundation in New York. Levy was a senior advisor in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office and to Justice Minister Yossi Beilin during the Government of Ehud Barak (1999–2001). He was a member of the official Israeli delegation to the Israel/Palestine peace talks at Taba under Barak and at Oslo B under Yitzhak Rabin (1994–95). He frequently writes for and is interviewed by and quoted in multiple media outlets and has been published in The New York Times, FT, and Foreign Affairs, amongst others.

Diala Shamas is a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works on challenging government and law enforcement abuses perpetrated under the guise of national security in the US and abroad. Shamas has also worked on a range of international human rights issues, most recently in challenging Israel's genocide against the Palestinian population in Gaza in US Federal Court and in related international accountability efforts. Prior to joining CCR, Shamas was a clinical supervising attorney and lecturer at Stanford Law School, and supervised the CLEAR project at CUNY School of Law. Shamas's practice includes working with social justice movements and advocates, including those in support of Palestinian rights, as they face suppression, helping them craft creative legal and advocacy strategies that build their power. She has worked to challenge the Muslim Ban and represented individuals targeted for surveillance or placed on federal watch lists. Shamas received her undergraduate and law degrees from Yale.

Rafael Shimunov is a Bukharian Jewish artist and activist from Queens, New York and the co-host of Beyond The Pale: Radio’s Home For The Jewish Left on WBAI 99.5 FM NY. As a former executive board member at Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) and a member of its Jews of Color caucus, Shimunov helped transform 30 years of JFREJ's organizing into electoral power by co-founding The Jewish Vote, a sister organization that campaigns for progressive candidates in New York by mobilizing progressive Jewish voters.

Maya Rosen is the Israel/​Palestine fellow at Jewish Currents.

Daniel May is the publisher of Jewish Currents.

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay teaches at Brown University. She is the author of The Jewelers of the Ummah: A Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World and Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism, among many other books. Her films include Un-documented: Unlearning Imperial Plunder and The World Like a Jewel in the Hand—Unlearning Imperial Plunder II.

Shaul Magid teaches modern Judaism at Harvard Divinity School, where he is also a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions. He is the author of many books and essays, most recently Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical and The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance. He is also the rabbi of the Fire Island Synagogue in Seaview, NY.

Rabbi Alissa Wise is the lead organizer of Rabbis for Ceasefire, which she founded in October 2023. She is co-author of Solidarity Is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing (Haymarket, 2024). Wise was interim co-executive director at Jewish Voice for Peace, where she also served as national organizer, co-director of organizing, and co-deputy director. She has also served as education director at Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ), where she created the Grace Paley Organizing Fellowship; program director at Ma’yan, a former project at the JCC of Manhattan; chaplain at Planned Parenthood; and education director at String of Pearls Congregation in Princeton.

Mikhael Manekin is an Israeli activist against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. He was the executive director of Breaking the Silence and of Molad: the Center for the Renewal of Israeli Democracy. He is a founder and director of the Alliance Fellowship, a Jewish–Palestinian political leadership network, and a founding leader of the Faithful Left, a movement of religious Jews fighting oppression and inequality.

hadar ahuvia is a performer, choreographer, educator, and ritual leader. Her essay “Joy Vey,” on choreographing an Israeli identity beyond Zionism, is featured in the Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance. Her choreographic credits include Baryshnikov Arts, Danspace Project, 14th St Y, Gibney, La Mama, Movement Research, NJCF, and ODC SF. Her Bessie-nominated work “Everything you have is yours?” inspired the forthcoming documentary by Tatyana Tenenbaum. ahuvia is a rabbinical student at Hebrew College and service leader at Kolot Chayeinu. (Photo credit: Maria Baranova)

Alex Tatarsky makes performances somewhere in between dance-theater, comedy, performance art, and deluded rant—often with songs. Their original solo shows include Americana Psychobabble, MATERIAL, Sad Boys in Harpy Land, Untitled Freakout, Dirt Trip, and Buttplug Gnome and have been presented at venues including MoMA PS1, The Whitney, Abrons Arts Center, La Mama, Icebox Project Space, and The Kitchen. They perform one-off gigs at bars, basements, galleries, and trash heaps.

Josh Gondelman is a writer and comedian who recently worked as the head writer and an executive producer for Desus & Mero on Showtime. Prior to that, he spent five years at Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, where he earned four Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, and three WGA Awards. His debut standup special People Pleaser (2022) was produced by Comedy Dynamics and is available to stream now. Gondelman is also the author of the essay collection Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results (Harper Perennial, 2019). His writing has appeared in publications such as McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, New York Magazine, and The New Yorker. (Photo Credit: Philip Romano)

Cherien Dabis is a director, writer, and actress whose work helped forge a new genre of Arab American storytelling. Her debut feature Amreeka had its world premiere at Sundance and went on to win the FIPRESCI at Cannes. It won a dozen more awards and was nominated for a Best Picture Gotham Award, 3 Independent Spirit Awards, and named one of the Top Ten Independent Films of the Year by the National Board of Review. Her second feature, May in the Summer, in which she also stars, opened Sundance and had its international premiere at Venice. In 2022, Dabis became the first Palestinian ever nominated for an Emmy for her critically acclaimed, dialogue-free episode of Only Murders in the Building, which Variety hailed a “tour de force of directorial achievement.” Other episodic directing credits include Ramy and Ozark. As an actress, Dabis recurs as a guest star on Mo and Fallout.

Tavi Gevinson is a writer, director, actor, and producer. Her screen acting credits include Gossip Girl, American Horror Story: Delicate, Parenthood, The Twilight Zone, Scream Queens, The Simpsons, Enough Said, Person to Person, and Shortcomings. She has performed on Broadway in revivals of This Is Our Youth, The Crucible, and The Cherry Orchard, and in the plays Assassins, MOSCOWx6, Days of Rage, The Good John Proctor, The Member of the Wedding, and Pre-Existing Condition. Gevinson has written for such publications as The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Poetry, and The Believer. In 2023, she received the Points North Fellowship for documentary producing. She was the founder and editor of Rookie, a magazine for and by teenagers, from 2011–2018.

James Schamus is an award-winning screenwriter (The Ice Storm), producer (Brokeback Mountain), and former CEO of Focus Features (Dallas Buyers Club, Lost in Translation, Milk, The Pianist). His feature directorial debut, an adaptation of Philip Roth's Indignation, premiered at the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals, and was released by Roadside Attractions. He created, executive produced, and was the showrunner on Somos, the hit Mexican limited series for Netflix. Works from his New York-based production company, Symbolic Exchange, include Kitty Green’s The Assistant; Andrew Ahn’s Driveway; Rhys Ernst’s award-winning trans comedy Adam; Minhal Baig’s acclaimed We Grown Now, which was released by Sony Classics; and Mike Ott’s McVeigh. Symbolic is currently in production on Andrew Ahn’s reboot of Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet. Schamus is currently collaborating with composer Huang Ruo on an opera for The Met, and is consulting producer on the next TV series from the Duffer Brothers (Stranger Things). He is professor of professional practice in Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where he teaches film history and theory. Last year, he served on the negotiating committee of the Writers Guild of America during their successful five-month strike. (Photo credit: Joel Jarres)

Emma Seligman is a Canadian writer and director of the films Shiva Baby and Bottoms.

James Wilson is a British producer of award winning films such as Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest, which won the 2024 Oscars for Best International Film and Best Sound, and was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It also won two British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) for Best Film Not in the English Language and Best British Film, and was nominated for Best Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Production Design and Best Sound. Wilson also produced Glazer's Under the Skin, which world premiered at the 2013 Venice Film Festival, was nominated for two BAFTAs including Best British Film; for Best International Film at the Spirit Awards; and for Best Picture at the Gotham Awards. Among other films he has produced are Trey Shults’ Waves; Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here; Andrew Dominik’s One More Time with Feeling. In addition, he has executive produced Savanah Leaf’s Earth Mama, which world premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and won the 2024 BAFTA for Best British Debut; Sophie Fiennes’ Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami (2017); Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead (2004); and Jonathan Glazer’s short film The Fall (2019).

Arielle Angel is editor-in-chief of Jewish Currents.

Fadi Quran is the senior director at Avaaz, a global movement with 69 million members dedicated to driving change worldwide. In his current role, Fadi focuses on the pursuit of liberation and cultivating the tools and skills required to achieve it. He has been at the forefront of many critical campaigns to challenge oppression and support freedom movements. Previously, Quran served as the UN advocacy officer with Al-Haq's legal research and advocacy unit in Palestine, where he specialized in international law and human rights advocacy. Beyond his advocacy work, Quran is an entrepreneur in the alternative energy sector, contributing to innovative solutions for sustainable energy. His insights and expertise have been featured in prominent media outlets, including The New York Times, NPR, The Guardian, AFP, Time, Al Jazeera, and others. He holds degrees in physics and international relations from Stanford University.

Ahmed Moor is a Palestinian American writer and activist. He is the co-editor of After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine (Saqi, 2024). He received a master’s in public policy from Harvard as well as a Soros Fellowship, and has written for The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The London Review of Books, The Guardian, and Al Jazeera English. He resides in Philadelphia, where he is an elected committee person in the Democratic Party and is writing a book about the Nakba.

Amjad Iraqi is a senior editor at +972 Magazine. He is also an associate fellow with Chatham House’s MENA Programme and a policy member of Al-Shabaka, and was previously an advocacy coordinator at the legal center Adalah. In addition to +972, he has written for The London Review of Books, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, and The Guardian, among others.

Dana El Kurd is an assistant professor at the University of Richmond in the Department of Political Science. She specializes in Palestinian and Arab politics, particularly on topics related to mobilization, public opinion, and international intervention. Her first book, Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine, was published in January 2020. Her work has been published in academic journals such as Global Studies Quarterly, PS: Political Science & Politics, and Democratization, as well as media outlets such as The Nation, Foreign Affairs, and Financial Times. She is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Arab Center Washington and a non-resident fellow at the Middle East Institute.

Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and a professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick in the Department of Africana Studies and the Program in Criminal Justice. Her research interests include human rights law, humanitarian law, national security law, refugee law, social justice, and critical race theory. She is an editorial committee member of the Journal for Palestine Studies and a co-founding editor of Jadaliyya, an electronic magazine on the Middle East that combines scholarly expertise and local knowledge. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and in the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019). Her current research seeks to examine the activist praxes in contemporary renewals of Black–Palestinian solidarity as well as technologies of surveillance and counter-surveillance in greater East Jerusalem.

Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 1,400 public television and radio stations worldwide. The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard honored Goodman with the 2014 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence Lifetime Achievement Award. Goodman has co-authored six New York Times bestsellers.

Peter Beinart is professor of journalism and political science at the City University of New York. He is also a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times, an MSNBC political commentator, editor-at-large of Jewish Currents, and a non-resident fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace. He writes the Beinart Notebook newsletter on Substack. His forthcoming book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning, will be published by Knopf in January 2025.

Rula Jebreal is an award-winning journalist and international
bestselling author. She is an adviser to the G7 on gender-based
violence, and a visiting professor on propaganda, gender and genocide at
the University of Miami.

Lydia Polgreen is an opinion columnist at The New York Times and a co-host of the Matter of Opinion podcast. An award-winning journalist, Polgreen previously served as managing director of Gimlet, a podcast studio at Spotify, and as editor-in-chief of HuffPost. Prior to joining HuffPost, Polgreen had a 15-year career at The New York Times that included the roles of deputy international editor, South Africa bureau chief, and chief of the West Africa bureau. She serves on the board of overseers of the Columbia Journalism Review and the board of directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Chaia is a dance music artist who combines house and techno grooves with klezmer and Yiddish music. With electric fiddle grooves, archival samples, and club sounds, she inspires new visions of Jewish diasporic identity. She has been featured on NPR, the NAMM Show, Grammy.com, and at over a dozen Jewish music festivals around the world. Her work has been supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Brooklyn Arts Council, Combined Jewish Philanthropies, and the Jewish Museum of Maryland. In 2023, she was awarded the Studio 170 Award from the Goethe Institut for her work with visual artist Dan Tombs and sound engineer Russell Elevado. Her debut single, “Borough Park," will be released on September 13, 2024.

Seba Kayan is a Viennese DJ and artist who collects lost pieces by digging into various music archives. Her polyrhythmic sets integrate a wide array of musical genres, including electro, techno, and acid. In between, she burns the sound of so-called “Oriental” music into ironclad techno frameworks. Her aim is not to create a binary vision of a Western vs. Eastern world, but for both cultures to be embodied and interwoven. (Photo credit: Magdalena Fischer)

Slavic Soul Party! is NYC’s official #1 brass band for BalkanSoul GypsyFunk. Over the past 15 years, the band has released seven full-length albums and toured in the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Turkey, and Zimbabwe, from pasha’s palaces to dive bars, Carnegie Hall to Serbian schoolyards, festival stages to prison courtyards. SSP!’s Tuesday night residency in Brooklyn has become a destination for music fans from around the world, and is famous for “delivering a great time” (The New York Times).

Danielle Durchslag is an artist and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. Her work has shown at venues including The Jewish Museum, the Toronto Shorts International Film Festival, the Invisible Dog Art Center, The Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna. Her work has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times, Photograph Magazine, Time Out New York, Clarion Content, The New York Post, The Forward, The Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, The New York Daily News, The Independent, The New York Observer, and on NPR, among others. She is a selected fellow of the New Jewish Culture Fellowship.

Morgan Bassichis is a comedian, musician, and writer who has been called “a tall child or, well, a big bird” by The Nation and “fiercely hilarious” by The New Yorker. Their past performances include A Crowded Field (Abrons Arts Center, 2023), Questions to Ask Beforehand (Bridget Donahue, 2022), Don’t Rain On My Bat Mitzvah (co-created with Ira Khonen Temple, Creative Time, 2021), Nibbling the Hand that Feeds Me (Whitney Museum, NYC, 2019), Klezmer for Beginners (co-created with Ethan Philbrick, Abrons Arts Center, NYC, 2019), and The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions: The Musical (co-created with TM Davy, DonChristian Jones, Michi Ilona Osato, and Una Aya Osato, New Museum, NYC, 2017). Morgan’s book of to-do lists, The Odd Years, was published by Wendy’s Subway in 2020. They co-edited, with Rachel Valinsky and Jay Saper, the anthology Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah (Wendy’s Subway, 2023).

Matt Lieb is a comedian, writer, and podcaster from Los Angeles. He is the host of Bad Hasbara: The World's Most Moral Podcast, which takes a comedic look at Israeli propaganda from an anti-Zionist Jewish perspective. His stand-up has been featured on Hulu, Sirius XM, and Viceland. He is currently a regular on the hit YouTube series Good Mythical Morning.

Jess Salomon is a New York-based Canadian comedian, who has appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. She’s written for the award-winning sketch comedy show Baroness Von Sketch (IFC/CBC) and CTV’s The Beaverton, and her comedy has aired on television in Canada on CBC. She was a writer and co-host of the BBC World Service podcast and the radio show Comedians vs the News. She recorded her first special, “Marriage of Convenience,” as part of the beloved comedy duo The El-Salomons”at the Just for Laughs Festival. Her first solo comedy special, “Sad Witch,” produced by 800 Pound Gorilla, premieres on September 24th on their YouTube channel. Before her career in comedy, she was a UN war crimes lawyer; the jury is still out on whether this move was a good one. (Photo credit: Jenni Walkowiak)

Atheer Yacoub is a Brooklyn-based comedian and writer, who has performed across the US. Her half-hour stand-up special premiered on Comedy Central Arabia in 2018, and was broadcast for a global, multilingual audience across the Middle East. She’s been featured on AXS TV’s Gotham Comedy Live and at SF Sketchfest and the Boston Comedy Festival, among many other venues. She served as a staff writer for sketch shows like The Breakdown and Passport Control on Brooklyn’s Emmy Award-winning network BRIC TV. She is also the co-creator and co-host of the critically-acclaimed sketch comedy show Muslim Girls DTF: Discuss Their Faith on FUSE TV, which has won numerous awards.

Mohanad Elshieky is a New York-based, Libyan-born comedian who made his national TV debut on Conan, has been featured on Comedy Central, and has toured across the country with the critically acclaimed storytelling show Pop-Up Magazine. He is currently a writer/consultant for the hit podcast Lovett or Leave It and was one of the hosts of Lemonada’s podcast I'm Sorry. In 2018, he was listed as one of Thrillist’s 50 best undiscovered comics. He was also a digital producer on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. Portland Mercury called him “an undisputed genius of comedy,” and he's been featured on podcasts such as Pod Save the People and Harmontown.

Josh Gondelman is a writer and comedian who recently worked as the head writer and an executive producer for Desus & Mero on Showtime. Prior to that, he spent five years at Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, where he earned four Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, and three WGA Awards. His debut standup special People Pleaser (2022) was produced by Comedy Dynamics and is available to stream now. Gondelman is also the author of the essay collection Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results (Harper Perennial, 2019). His writing has appeared in publications such as McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, New York Magazine, and The New Yorker. (Photo Credit: Philip Romano)