Sarah Jaffe is a journalist, columnist, and podcast co-host, covering the politics of power from the workplace to the streets. She was one of the first reporters to cover Occupy and the Fight for $15, and has appeared on numerous radio and television programs. She is also the author of the acclaimed books Work Won’t Love you Back and Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt.

Poet and philosopher John Paetsch holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Georgia. His dissertation explores why Gilles Deleuze, Henri Bergson, and G.W. Leibniz all entwine “continuity” with “heterogeneity”—whether considering how a life dissipates time or a body diffuses force. His ongoing research dances between philosophy, maths and art, and he has published several works of anomalous poetry.

Ron Purser is a Business Professor, Zen Priest and cultural critic, whose viral article “Beyond McMindfulness” opened the floodgates for the mindfulness backlash. He is the author of eight books including the widely-discussed ‘McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality”, and his works centre on the challenges of introducing Buddhist thought into modern, individualist, secular, Western consumer capitalism.

Gunes Taylor is a training fellow at the Francis Crick Institute, the London-based biomedical research centre. Her research predominantly focuses on the the genetic formation of ovaries and testes. Gunes has debated the implications of genome editing in forums such as Fertility Fest, the Festival of Genomics, and Virtual Futures, and is fascinated by our cultural and ideological responses to our genetic makeup.

As a molecular biologist she uses many cutting-edge technologies to understand how reproductive systems are built. Güneş is a highly experienced public speaker, who has interviewed Richard Dawkins, Yuval Harari, Slavoj Zizek, Robert Plomin, Simon Baron-Cohen and Lord Robert Winston.