WDaisy Bates was an American civil rights activist, publisher, journalist, and lecturer who played a leading role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957.
WDavid Batstone is an ethics professor at the University of San Francisco and is the founder and president of Not for Sale.
WSidney Stone Blumenthal is an American journalist and political operative.
WJordan Chariton is an American investigative reporter. Chariton is the co-founder and CEO of Status Coup, a progressive media outlet that features investigative and in-field reporting on politics, social justice issues, and the environment.
WCerridwen Fallingstar, is an American Wiccan Priestess, Shamanic Witch, and author. Since the late 1970s she has written, taught, and lectured about magic, ritual, and metaphysics, and is considered a leading authority on pagan Witchcraft.
WKenyon Farrow is an American award-winning essayist, activist, cultural critic, journalist, director, and educator noted for elevating the visibility of progressive racial and economic justice issues as they pertain to the LGBTQ community. Previously he served as the executive director of Queers for Economic Justice, policy institute fellow with National LGBTQ Task Force, U.S. & Global Health Policy Director of Treatment Action Group, and public education and communications coordinator for the New York State Black Gay Network. Currently Farrow is senior editor with TheBody.com and TheBodyPro.com.
WFoo Conner is an American activist, entrepreneur, and journalist. He is known for his work on Occupy Wall Street, Randyland, Social journalism, and as a YouTube personality.
WRoberta Fulbright (1874–1953) was an American businesswoman who consolidated her husband's business enterprises and became an influential newspaper publisher, editor and journalist. She used her paper to push civic responsibility and women's rights. Fulbright was the 1946 Arkansas Mother of the Year, a co-founder of the Arkansas Newspaper Women, and was posthumously inducted into the Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame in its inaugural group of honorees.
WAmy Goodman is an American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter, and author. Her investigative journalism career includes coverage of the East Timor independence movement and Chevron Corporation's role in Nigeria. She is also a peace activist that focuses on both environmental justice and social justice, with ethics of ecofeminism as her philosophy.
WDavid Miles Hogg is an American gun control activist and student who survived the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018. He is a founding member of Never Again MSD, an advocacy group led by Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (MSD) students. He has helped lead several high-profile protests, marches, and boycotts. He has also been a target and scapegoat of several conspiracy theories and right-wing accusations.
WNomiki Daphne Konst is an American activist and political commentator. She worked for The Young Turks and Our Revolution, a progressive political action organization developed from the Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign. Konst was a candidate for the 2019 New York City Public Advocate special election, which was held to complete the term of Letitia James after she was elected Attorney General of New York. Konst came in 11th place out of 17 candidates.
WAlexa O'Brien is an American journalist and activist.
WJames Edward O'Keefe III is an American conservative political activist and provocateur. He produces secretly recorded undercover audio and video encounters in academic, governmental, and social service organizations, purporting to show abusive or illegal behavior by employees and/or representatives of those organizations. He has selectively edited videos to misrepresent the context of the conversations and the subjects' responses, creating the false impression that people said or did things they did not.
WHenry Lawrence Garfield, better known as Henry Rollins, is an American musician, singer, actor, presenter, comedian, and activist. He hosts a weekly radio show on KCRW, is a regular columnist for Rolling Stone Australia, and was a regular columnist for LA Weekly.
WAustin Ruse is an American conservative political activist, journalist and author. He is the President of the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM), which has been listed as an anti-LGBT hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Through C-FAM and his own writings, Ruse advocates anti-LGBT and anti-abortion conservative positions, and has advocated for the criminalization of homosexuality.
WJon Wiener is an American historian and journalist based in Los Angeles, California. His most recent book is Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, a Los Angeles Times bestseller co-authored by Mike Davis. He successfully waged a 25-year legal battle to win the release of the FBI's files on John Lennon. Wiener played a key role in efforts to expose the surveillance as well as the behind-the-scenes battling between the government and the former Beatle, and is a recognized expert on the FBI-versus-Lennon controversy. A professor emeritus of United States history at the University of California, Irvine, he is also a contributing editor to the progressive political weekly magazine The Nation and host of The Nation's weekly podcast, Start Making Sense. He also hosts a weekly radio program in Los Angeles.
WJillian C. York is an American free-expression activist, the Director of International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and a founding member of Deep Lab. She is a regular columnist for Al Jazeera English, writes for Global Voices Online, and is the author of Morocco - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture.