David McKay Wilson, a regular contributor to the Harvard Education Letter, in 2003 traveled to India to interview workers enslaved in bonded labor in the state of Tamil Nadu. .
Gillian teaches English at SAR High School in the Bronx. Previously, she was a tenured associate professor of English and director of writing at Yeshiva College in New York City. She has published books on Thomas Hardy and Philip Larkin, as well as articles on poetry, short fiction, composition and literature pedagogy, and issues of labor equity in higher education, among other topics. She serves as forum director for The Thomas Hardy Association.
Naomi oversees the Southern Poverty Law Center’s legal and advocacy work on behalf of immigrants in the Deep South. She represents clients who have experienced wage theft, discrimination, human trafficking and other abuses. Tsu was counsel for immigrant workers in David v. Signal, one of the largest labor trafficking cases brought in the United States, which resulted in a $14 million jury verdict and for which her team was awarded Public Justice’s 2015 Trial Lawyer of the Year award.
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.
Tina Vasquez is a journalist with more than 10 years of experience reporting on immigration, reproductive injustice, gender, labor and culture. She is currently a senior reporter at Prism, where she covers gender justice and workers’ rights. Previously, she was a senior reporter covering immigration at Rewire.News, the leading online publication devoted to evidence-based reporting on reproductive and sexual health, rights and justice. Vasquez’s work has appeared in the New York Review of Books, NPR, The Nation, Playboy and a variety of other publications. She currently serves on the board of