Dr. Robin D. G. Kelley
Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA, and a proud alumnus of Cal State Long Beach. His books include, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original; Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression; Race Rebels: Culture Politics and the Black Working Class; Yo’ Mama’s DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America; Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and the forthcoming Black Bodies Swinging: An American Postmortem. His essays have appeared in several publications, including The Nation, Monthly Review, New York Times, American Historical Review, American Quarterly, Social Text, Metropolis, Black Music Research Journal, and The Boston Review, for which he also serves as Contributing Editor.
Dr. Victoria Reyes
Dr. Victoria Reyes is Associate Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies at University of California, Riverside. She is a feminist sociologist who studies culture, borders, and empire and is author of the multiple award winning books Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope (2022) and Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines (2019). Her award winning work has also been published in the peer review journals Social Forces, Theory and Society, Ethnography, City & Community, Sociology of Race & Ethnicity, Sociology Compass, Teaching Sociology, among others, and she's written for LA Times, Washington Post, The Conversation, and Inside Higher Ed. She's also received funding and/or fellowships from the American Association of University Women, National Science Foundation, Institute for International Education, American Sociological Association, Institute for Citizens & Scholars, National Center for Institutional Diversity at University of Michigan, among others.