Colleen is the associate professor of non-Western literatures and the director of Women's and Gender Studies at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania. Her academic work has been published in Feminist Formations and Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Clemens co-hosts the podcast Inside254, which focuses in depth on one current topic about labor, indigeneity, gender or world issues every other week. She can be reached via her blog.
Stephanie Allen Crist is a professional writer and disability rights advocate. Her unending advocacy adventure started shortly before her three children with autism received their medical diagnoses. Stephanie is the author of Discovering Autism / Discovering Neurodiversity and First Steps: Understanding Autism. She aspires to found a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of information available to people with neurological differences and their allies. Learn more by visiting www.StephanieAllenCrist.com.
Mitali Perkins was born in India and immigrated to the United States with her family when she was 6 years old. She is the author of two novels, as well as many short stories and essays about life between cultures.
Jamila Bey is a journalist and speaker in Washington, DC. Her work covers American politics and all things First Amendment. She's currently working on a book which is a critical examination of the role of religion in the lives of African-American women.