Chris Dixon is an activist, writer, and educator with more than three decades of experience in social movements in the US and Canada. Originally from Alaska, he now lives in Ottawa, on unceded Algonquin territory. Dixon is a member of Punch Up Collective and serves on the advisory board for the activist journal Upping the Anti. Formally trained as a scholar of social movements, he writes and speaks regularly about radical organizing, left history, and movement-based research. His first book was Another Politics: Talking Across Today's Transformative Movements. Find more of Dixon's work on his website, Writing With Movements.

Rachel Herzing's work has spanned grassroots movements against imprisonment and policing, community and movement education, and philanthropy. Herzing is the co-author of How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement against Imprisonment with Justin Piché, and the director of the Yarrow Institute for Organizing and Analysis.