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Ida Applebroog is a New York artist who has been described as a social voyeur and commentator. In her recent book, Are You Bleeding Yet, Applebroog writes, "Serial murders, regular murders, child abuse, AIDS, war, sexism, ageism, drugs, vandalism, terrorism, the environment, gang rape, regular rape, euthanasia, death camps, battered women, sadism, masochism, homophobia, censorship, homelessness. This is our world, I dissect it, I assemble it, I call it art." Since gaining prominence in the late 1970s, Applebroog's work has consistently confronted contemporary issues of gender, sexuality and power in an often subversive social critique. Her pieces have been exhibited in several solo shows and is represented in many private and major collections world-wide, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Karen Beckman is Assistant Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Rochester. She is currently working on two books, one on the relationship between feminism and terrorism, the other a study of car-crash films. She is the author of Vanishing Women: Magic, Film and Feminism (Duke UP, 2003).
Elizabeth A. Castelli is Associate Professor of Religion at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her publications include Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making (Columbia University Press, 2004); Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence (Palgrave, 2004), edited with Janet R. Jakobsen; Women, Gender, Religion: A Reader, edited with Rosamond C. Rodman (Palgrave, 2001); and The Postmodern Bible, coauthored with the Bible and Culture Collective (Yale University Press, 1995). During the 2003-2004 academic year, she is Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Religion and Media at NYU.
Gaye Chan is Professor of Photography at the University of Hawai`i. She has had solo exhibitions at Honolulu Academy of Art (Honolulu), Art in General (New York City), YYZ (Toronto), Artspeak (Vancouver), Gallery 4A (Sydney), SF Camerawork (San Francisco) and The Contemporary Museum (Honolulu). Chan is co-founder of DownWind Production, a collaborative that examines the impact of colonialism, capitalism, and tourism in Hawai`i. Through agitprop commodities and its website, DownWind explores Waikiki as an actual specific site/sight and a metaphor for countless other places where self-sustaining peoples have been disclocated for profit.
Sue Coe is one of the most important politically oriented artists living in the U.S. today. From the outset of her career working as an illustrator for such publications as The New York Times and Time Magazine, Coe was committed to reaching a broad audience through the print media. Later, she began creating extended visual discourses on subjects (such as racial discrimination and animal rights) that she felt were not adequately addressed by conventional news organizations. Widely discussed and exhibited, Coe has appeared on the cover of Art News and has been the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. Her work is in the collections of many major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Neta Crawford is Associate Professor (Research) and Principal Investigator of the Global Ethics Project at the Watson Institute at Brown University. Her book, Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization, and Humanitarian Intervention (Cambridge University Press, 2002) is the co-winner of the American Political Science Association's (APSA) 2003 Robert Jervis and Paul Schroeder Best Book Award.
Lisa Duggan is Associate Professor of American Studies and History at NYU. Her publications include The Twilight of Equality: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics and the Attack on Democracy (Beacon Press, 2003); Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence and American Modernity (Duke University Press, 2001), and Sex Wars: Essays in Sexual Dissent and American Politics, co-authored with Nan D. Hunter (Routledge Press, 1995).
Cheri Honkala is the executive director of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union, a multiracial organization of, by, and for poor and homeless people. Honkala was named among the 100 most powerful people in the region by The Philadelphian. She played a leading role in the Economic Human Rights Campaign, the March of the Americas, and the first-ever summit of 100 antipoverty organizations.
Lisa Kahane is a professional photographer specializing in documentary work and portraiture. In the 90's, she visited three sides of conflict in former Yugoslavia. These and other pictures appear worldwide in trade and consumer magazines, newspapers and books. Born in New York City and educated at Barnard, she has also worked on location in Central and South America. Featured in Urban Mythologies at the Bronx Museum and included in documentation for The American Century at the Whitney Museum, her photographs are in the permanent collection of the New York Public Library, the Fales Library at NYU and the Library of Congress.
Suzanne Lacy is an internationally known artist whose work includes large-scale performances on social themes and urban issues. She is the Chair of the Fine Arts School of Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. her recent work includes The Skin of Memeory, with anthropologist Pilar Riano, an installation in Medellin, Colombia; Code 33, a performance involving 150 youth and 100 police officers in dialogue in Oakland, California; and she is currently at work on Beneath Land and Water, a project for Elkhorn City, Kentucky, and The Borough Project, in Charleston, South Carolina's Spoleto USA Festival. Lacy is a proponent through art and writing for activism, audience engagement, and artists' roles in shaping the public agenda, publishing over 50 articles on public theory. Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art (1995), was published by Bay Press and coined the term now in wide use for socially engaged public art.
Winona LaDuke was the Green Party's vice presidential candidate in the 2000 U.S. elections. She lives in the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota and works on restoring the local land base and culture. In 1994, Time magazine named Ms. LaDuke one of America's 50 most promising leaders under 40 years of age. She is the author of several books, including Last Standing Woman and All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life (Voyageur Press, 1999). She is currently at work on a writing project about the massacre site at Wounded Knee.
Lois Ann Lorentzen is Professor of Social Ethics and Associate Director of the Center for Latino Studies in the Americas (CELASA) at the University of San Francisco. She also serves as Principal Investigator for the Religion and Immigration Project (TRIP) funded by the Pew Charitable Trust. Her publications include La Etica y el Medio Ambiente (Universidad Iberoamericana Press, 2000) and the co-edited volumes, Religions/Globalizations: Theories and Cases (Duke University Press, 2001); The Women and War Reader (NYU Press, 1998); Liberation Theologies, Postmodernity and the Americas (Routledge Press, 1997); and The Gendered New World Order: Militarism, Environment, Development (Routledge Press, 1996).
Kate Rhee is the director of the Prison Moratorium Project, a multiracial group of young activists, community members, and formerly incarcerated people. The Moratorium Project works to stop prison expansion and mass incarceration and is dedicated to reinvesting resources in the communities most affected by criminal justice policies, promoting educational programs, alternatives-to-incarceration initiatives, housing, and sustainable development.
Erin Runions is Assistant Professor of Theology at Saint Bonaventure University. She is the author of How Hysterical: Identification and Resistance in the Bible and Film (Palgrave, 2003); Changing Subjects: Gender, Nation and Future in Micah (Sheffield Academic Press, 2001); and The Labour of Reading: Desire, Alienation and Biblical Interpretation (Scholars Press, 1999), edited with Fiona Black and Roland Boer. She was a post-doctoral research associate at the Barnard Center for Research on Women (2000-2002) with research sponsorship from the Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l'Aide à la Recherche (Fonds FCAR), Quèbec.
Dread Scott is a multidisciplinary artist whose work addresses questions that are part of the national public discourse. He first received national attention in 1989 when his art became the center of controversy over its use of the American flag. President Bush Sr. declared his installation 'What is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag', "disgraceful" and the entire U.S. senate denounced this work as they passed legislation to "protect the flag." His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Robert Miller Gallery in New York, and the DeBeyerd Center for Contemporary Art in the Netherlands, as well as in many galleries and museums here and internationally. He has appeared on numerous television shows including Oprah and The Today Show, and his work has been written about in many publications. He has been awarded a Mid-Atlantic/NEA Regional Fellowship in Photography, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture, and a Creative Capital Grant.
Meredeth Turshen is a Professor in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. She is the author of The Political Ecology of Disease in Tanzania (1984), The Politics of Public Health (1989), and Privatizing Health Services in Africa (1999), all published by Rutgers University Press, and the editor of Women and Health in Africa (Africa World Press, 1991), Women's Lives and Public Policy: The International Experience (Greenwood, 1993), What Women Do in Wartime: Gender and Conflict in Africa (Zed Books, 1998), African Women's Health (Africa World Press, 2000) and The Aftermath: Women in Postconflict Transformation (Zed Books, 2002). She serves as Political Co-Chair of the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars, as Treasurer of the Committee for Health in Southern Africa, as contributing editor of the Review of African Political Economy, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Public Health Policy.
Jody Williams is the founding coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), which was formally launched by six nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in October of 1992. Ms. Williams has overseen the growth of the ICBL to more than 1,000 NGOs in more than 60 countries. She has served as the chief strategist and spokesperson for the campaign. Working in an unprecedented cooperative effort with governments, bodies of the United Nations, and the International Committee of the Red Cross, the ICBL achieved its goal of an international treaty banning antipersonnel landmines during the diplomatic conference held in Oslo in September 1997. For their work, Williams and the ICBL shared the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize.
Daphne Wysham is the coordinator and founder of the Sustainable Energy and Economic Network (SEEN). SEEN is a project of the Transnational Institute of Amsterdam and the Institute for Policy Studies, where Wysham is a fellow. Wysham has worked on environmental and development issues since 1985, focusing primarily on environmental issues as they affect people in the Southern hemisphere. Currently she focuses on equity and sustainability as they relate to international financial institutions, export credit agencies, fossil fuels, indigenous peoples, women, human rights, and climate change. Through SEEN, Wysham has coauthored numerous reports, including, Enron's Pawns: How Public Institutions Bankrolled Enron's Globalization Game, The World Bank and the G-7: Still Changing the Earth, and A Climate for Business. On the 50th anniversary of the World Bank, Wysham was the coauthor, with IPS director John Kavanaugh, of Beyond Bretton Woods: Alternatives to the Global Economic Order (Pluto Press, 1995).
Emna Zghal was born in Tunisia. She received her BA from Ecole des Beaux Arts of Tunis and her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Her work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Tunisia, France, the U.S., Germany, Japan and Italy. She was part of the 1997 edition of the New Delhi Triennial and the 1995 edition of the Kuwait Biennial. Emna has received fellowship residencies from the MacDowell Colony, the Weir Farm Trust, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Cite Internationale Des Arts in Paris. Reviews of her work have appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Village Voice, in addition to many Tunisian publications. Her series The Prophet of Black Folk has been purchased by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Emna now lives and works in New York City.
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