Mónica Salmón Gómez is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at the New School for Social Research. She works at the intersection of border and feminist studies, forced migration, racialization of migrant illegality, and transnationalism.

Stephen Graf is a Politics Ph.D. candidate at the New School for Social Research studying the organizational forms of students acting together. His current work explores how students recursively construct, break down, and blur the relations between state and society.

Catherine Telford Keogh is an Assistant Professor in Fine Arts at Parsons School of Design. She is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture whose work is concerned with the fantasies and promises embedded in objects that breakdown through an amalgam of material relations and biological processes.

Carin Kuoni is a curator and writer whose work examines how contemporary artistic practices reflect and shape social, political, and cultural conditions. She is senior director/chief curator of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School and Assistant Professor of Visual Studies.

Lydia Nobbs is a Politics Ph.D. candidate at the New School for Social Research. Her research explores the political economy of artificial intelligence (AI).

Cresa Pugh is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School. Her research examines the social and political legacies of imperialism, cultural heritage and museums, and violence in postcolonial Africa and Southeast Asia.

Helen Betya Rubinstein is a writer and part-time faculty at Eugene Lang College, where she works with first-year and transfer students to approach writing and scholarship using anti-oppressive strategies.

Wilson Valentín-Escobar is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Public Humanities at the Schools of Public Engagement. His work lives at the nexus of social justice and varied art-making modalities that showcase the liberatory artistic practices of maligned and marginalized groups.

Hugh Raffles is Director of GIDEST and Professor of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College.

Kari is a storyteller, writer, artist, and researcher. She is serving as the 2023-24 GIDEST Program Assistant.