Debbie is a longtime journalist, writer and speaker on municipalism, who also served as press secretary to Bernie Sanders for three years when he was first elected to the U.S. Congress.

Ozlem is a professor at the College of Staten Island. Her research focuses on political sociology, ethnographies of the state and nationalism, comparative and historical sociology, race and ethnicity, social movements, qualitative methods, and classical, poststructural, postcolonial and feminist theory.

Matthew is a writer, poet and anarchist organizer affiliated with the Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council. He serves as co-editor of the radical artists’ imprint Cicada Press and is studying Cultural Anthropology in the PhD program at CUNY Graduate Center.