Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author of No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything, and No is Not Enough. Her new book, On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal was published in September 2019. She is Senior Correspondent for The Intercept, a Puffin Writing Fellow at Type Media Center and is the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.

Richard S. L. Blissett

Richard S. L. Blissett is an Assistant Professor of Education Leadership, Management, and Policy at Seton Hall University. His areas of research revolve around the political dimensions of education policymaking, particularly as they relate to the perspectives people have on education policy, where they come from, and the mechanisms by which those perspectives translate into policy. This has included research on school boards, social movements, voting behavior, teachers unions, and public opinion.

Richard Alomar

Richard Alomar is an assistant professor of landscape architecture and extension specialist at Rutgers University. He is also the founder of the Urban Field Studio, a landscape architecture practice that explores the connections between global climate research and implementation. He has designed and managed large-scale master plan projects as well as rooftop gardens and small community parks. His main interests are in visual notation, public spaces and in landscapes designed by nonprofessionals. He holds a BS in agronomy from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez and an MLA from Louisiana State University. He is a registered landscape architect in New York and a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects.