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.

Güneş Taylor is a training fellow at the Francis Crick Institute, the London-based biomedical research centre. Güneş has debated the implications of genome editing in forums such as Fertility Fest, the Festival of Genomics, and Virtual Futures, as well as on the Guardian's podcast Science Weekly. In 2018, Güneş was awarded the Crick Public Engagement Prize for her efforts in the public communication of science.