Stuart Schrader is Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins and the Director of the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism. He is the author of Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, to be published by Basic Books in April 2026.

Charmaine Chua is a Singaporean scholar, writer, and organizer, and Acting Associate Professor of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is also affiliated with the Asian American Research Center. Her research, teaching, and public engagement investigate socio-spatial reconfigurations of global capitalism from the late twentieth century to the present through a focus on global supply chains, the transpacific logistics industry, policing, and of late, housing and energy in the US.

Dan Berger is a Professor at the University of Washington Bothell. He is an interdisciplinary historian of activism, Black Power, and the carceral state in twentieth-century U.S. history. His latest book is Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family’s Journey, which is a biography of the modern Black freedom struggle through the lives of Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons.

Angélica Cházaro is a Professor at the University of Washington Law School. She teaches Critical Race Theory, Poverty Law, Professional Responsibility, and courses on Immigration Law. Professor Cházaro served as a chief negotiator during a 56-day hunger strike at the Northwest Detention Center, representing immigrant detainees. She is a member of the Blue Ribbon Commission convened by the National Day Laborer’s Organizing Network to provide the Executive Branch with recommendations on administrative relief for undocumented people.

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