Cyndi Suarez is the Nonprofit Quarterly's president and editor‐in‐chief. She is author of The Power Manual: How to Master Complex Power Dynamics, in which she outlines a new theory and practice of power. Suarez has worked as a strategy and innovation consultant with a focus on networks and platforms for social movements. Her studies were in feminist theory and organizational development for social change.

Dax‐Devlon Ross's award‐winning writing has been featured in Time, The Guardian, the New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Washington Post Magazine, and other national publications. He is a Puffin Foundation Fellow at Type Media Center and a principal at the social‐impact consultancies Dax‐Dev and Third Settlements, where he designs disruptive tools and strategies to generate equity in workplaces and education spaces. Ross is the author of six books, including his latest, Letters to My White Male Friends (St. Martin's Press, 2021). You can find him at dax-dev.com.

Sequoia Owen is the founder of The Brilliant Lead, a coaching and consulting business that assists nonprofit professionals in building leadership skills and creating a positive work culture. She is passionate about teaching leaders how to unlearn toxic habits and use their power of influence for good. She holds a master's degree in mental health counseling and has served in the nonprofit sector for nearly a decade in various roles including trauma‐informed work with victims of violence, program management, thought leadership, executive coaching, and governance. You can find out more at thebrilliantlead.com.

Liz Derias is coexecutive director at CompassPoint (CP). Derias's work focuses on ensuring that CompassPoint is values driven, sustainable, and ultimately impactful in supporting leaders, organizations, and movements committed to social justice to realize their full power. Derias has more than 20 years of national and international social justice, youth, and community organizing, popular education training, and policy and advocacy experience.

Kad Smith is the founder of Twelve26 Solutions, LLC. Smith is also a member of CompassPoint's teacher team, and a lead designer and cofacilitator of CompassPoint's B.L.A.C.K. Team Intensive. He is most passionate about changing the material conditions of BIPOC folks across the country. Smith spends a significant amount of his time focusing on civic engagement, political education, climate justice, and imagining the bridging of worldviews across the globe. He currently serves on the board of directors for Berkeley's Ecology Center and GreenPeace Fund USA.

Shanelle Matthews partners with social justice activists, organizations, and campaigns to inspire action and to build narrative power. From Sierra Club and ACLU to Black Lives Matter Global Network and Aspen Institute, she has collaborated with influencers and changemakers to transform complex ideas into persuasive political messaging. Today, she is the communications director for the Movement for Black Lives, an ecosystem of 150 organizations creating a broad political home for Black people to learn, organize, and take action. In 2016, Shanelle founded the Radical Communicators Network (RadComms) to strengthen the field of strategic communications, as well as Channel Black, a program that prepares progressive spokespeople to make critical, real‐time interventions through the media. In 2017, Shanelle joined The New School as its inaugural Activist‐in‐Residence. She is currently on faculty, teaching critical theory and social justice with an emphasis on Black resistance. She holds a degree in journalism and new and online media from the Manship School of Mass Communications at Louisiana State University and is coauthoring Framing New Worlds: Resistance Narratives from 21st‐Century Social Movements, a forthcoming anthology.

Kitana Ananda is a former racial justice editor at Nonprofit Quarterly. She has worked on program outreach and communications for nonprofits ranging from community‐based organizations to higher education. Prior to joining NPQ, Kitana was an associate editor for two educational learning and assessment programs, a nonprofit consultant, and a postdoctoral scholar at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she led communications and public engagement for the CUNY Humanities Alliance, a Mellon‐funded initiative for equitable teaching and learning. Kitana earned a PhD in sociocultural anthropology from Columbia University, where she researched war, migration, and diasporic political communities. Her writing has appeared in Prism, CNN Opinion, the New York Times, and elsewhere.

Isabelle Moses is Faith in Action's chief of staff. Previously, Moses partnered with numerous nonprofits and foundations as a consultant and coach through roles with Community Wealth Partners and the Management Center. She holds undergraduate and MBA degrees, as well as a certificate in leadership coaching, from Georgetown University.

Aria Florant is cofounder of Liberation Ventures, a field catalyst and philanthropic organization fueling the US Black‐led movement for racial repair. Previously, she served public and social sector clients at McKinsey & Company and helped develop the McKinsey Institute for Black Economic Mobility.

Venneikia Williams (she/her) is a person whose pursuit of justice is informed by the radical Black tradition. She is the campaign manager for Media 2070, a media reparations project.

Savi Horne is executive director of the North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers Land Loss Prevention Project. She is also a member of the leadership team of the National Black Food and Justice Alliance/Black Land and Power.

Dr. Jasmine Ratliff, based in New Orleans, is co‐executive director of the National Black Food and Justice Alliance, a coalition of Black‐led groups that build Black leadership and institutions for food sovereignty and liberation.

Dr. Aisha Rios is the founder and learning and change strategist at Coactive Change. In her role, she partners with change agents working to dismantle systems of oppression and create more just, liberatory futures. She brings Black intersectional feminism and abolitionist principles and practices to her ethnographically grounded evaluation practice. She relies on approaches and methodologies that center collective knowledge and collaboration—rather than solely relying on her knowledge and experience—because she believes that learning does not happen in isolation but in partnership with those working in the field to advance social justice change. What this looks like in practice is slower paced, reflective, and contextually grounded learning and evaluation projects where she provides thought partnership, creative facilitation, and strategic guidance.

Esther A. Armah is an international award–winning journalist, playwright, radio host, and writer. She is CEO and founder of the Armah Institute of Emotional Justice, a global institute implementing the Emotional Justice framework she created. The institute focuses on projects, training, and thought leadership.

Nineequa Blanding is former NPQ's senior editor of health justice. Blanding has dedicated the entirety of her career toward working at the intersection of health and social justice. Prior to joining NPQ, Blanding was vice president of Health Resources in Action, where she led the direction and growth of the organization's grantmaking services. Blanding was the former director of health and wellness at the Boston Foundation (TBF), where she applied her vision, leadership, and racial equity lens to develop, implement, and evaluate TBF's strategic priority to improve population health. Prior to her work at TBF, Blanding held senior leadership positions at the Boston Public Health Commission, where she led local and statewide strategies to advance health equity. She also held former roles with Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. She currently cochairs the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health's Prevention Research Center Community Advisory Board. Blanding has a BA in psychology from Spelman College, and an MPH with honors from Long Island University, and she was previously funded by the National Institutes of Health to conduct postbaccalaureate research in trauma‐related risk factors for post‐traumatic stress disorder at Emory University and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University.

Amira Barger, MBA, CVA, CFRE, is an award‐winning executive vice president at Edelman, the largest communications firm in the world, where she spends her days providing senior diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and communications counsel to clients. She also serves as an adjunct professor in marketing and communications at California State University East Bay. In her spare time, Amira and her family collect stamps in the National Park Service Passport Cancellation Book. She lives in Benicia, California, with Jonathan, her life partner of 17+ years, and their daughter, Audrey.

Trevor Smith is a narrative and cultural strategist who writes and researches on topics such as racial inequality, the wealth gap, and reparations. He is currently the Director of Narrative Change at Liberation Ventures, where he is building the first narrative lab dedicated to building narrative power behind reparations. He has previously worked in program and communication roles at the Surdna Foundation, ACLU, and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Sonia Sarkar is former editor of health justice at NPQ, a public health practitioner, advisor, and storyteller passionate about partnering with and amplifying efforts to democratize health. As the founder of Healing Capital, as well as a Social Entrepreneur‐in‐Residence at Common Future, she works with BIPOC‐led grassroots organizations and national networks who are envisioning liberatory models of health that reclaim community power and decision‐making.

William A. (“Sandy”) Darity Jr. is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics and the director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University.

A. Kirsten Mullen is a writer, folklorist, museum consultant, and lecturer whose work focuses on race, art, history, and politics.

Natasha Hicks is a senior associate with the Insight Center. She applies her housing, policy, and design expertise to Insight's racial and gender wealth inequality and economic security initiatives. Natasha spent several years in the public sector designing a program for coordinated housing stability services with the City of Detroit, authoring the City of Charleston's first strategic plan for affordable housing, and devising a strategic plan for public art for the Municipality of Tirana. She received her master's degree in urban planning and design studies from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, and her bachelor's degree in architecture from Stanford University.

Anne Price is former president of the Insight Center, a nonprofit focused on advancing racial and gender economic equity.

Rakeen Mabud is the chief economist and managing director of policy and research at the Groundwork Collaborative. A nationally respected policy expert, Rakeen is a leading thinker on the economy with a unique ability to communicate complex economic concepts in an accessible way. She played a key role in Groundwork's pioneering effort to expose the role of corporate profiteering in inflation and serves as a leading policy expert and spokesperson on how economic trends affect people's everyday lives, with a particular attention to structural disparities by race and gender. Rakeen holds a PhD in government from Harvard University, and a BA in economics and political science from Wellesley College.

Aisha Nyandoro is CEO of Springboard to Opportunities, a nonprofit serving subsidized housing residents in Jackson, Mississippi, which runs the Magnolia Mother's Trust guaranteed‐income program for Black mothers living in extreme poverty.

Steve Dubb is senior editor of economic justice at NPQ, where he writes articles (including NPQ's Economy Remix column), moderates Remaking the Economy webinars, and works to cultivate voices from the field and help them reach a broader audience. Prior to coming to NPQ in 2017, Steve worked with cooperatives and nonprofits for more than two decades, including 12 years at The Democracy Collaborative and 3 years as executive director of NASCO (North American Students of Cooperation). In his work, Steve has authored, coauthored, and edited numerous reports; participated in and facilitated learning cohorts; designed community building strategies; and helped build the field of community wealth building. Steve is the lead author of Building Wealth: The Asset‐Based Approach to Solving Social and Economic Problems (Aspen, 2005) and coauthor (with Rita Hodges) of The Road Half Traveled: University Engagement at a Crossroads, published by MSU Press in 2012. In 2016, Steve curated and authored Conversations on Community Wealth Building, a collection of interviews of community builders that Steve had conducted over the previous decade.

Darnell Adams, co‐owner of Firebrand Cooperative, is a dynamic, Boston‐based leadership coach and business strategist with more than two decades of experience in nonprofit, for‐profit, and cooperative businesses. Adams develops and facilitates strategic plans, special projects, and workshops, providing expertise and training on an array of topics including implicit bias, power, and equity.

Francisco Pérez is the director of the Center for Popular Economics, a nonprofit collective of political economists whose programs and publications demystify the economy and put useful economic tools in the hands of people fighting for social and economic justice.

Alicia Garza is founder and principal of Black Futures Lab and Black to the Future Action Fund, and a cofounder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network.

Carmel Pryor is the senior director of communications at the Alliance for Youth Action, the premier youth organizing and power‐building network growing progressive people power across America by supporting local young people's organizations to strengthen our democracy, fix our economy, and correct injustices through on‐the‐ground organizing.

Aja Couchois Duncan is a San Francisco, Bay Area–based leadership coach, organizational capacity builder, and learning and strategy consultant of Ojibwe, French, and Scottish descent. A senior consultant with Change Elemental, Duncan has worked for many years in the areas of leadership, learning, and equity. Her debut collection, Restless Continent (Litmus Press, 2016), was selected by Entropy magazine as one of the best poetry collections of 2016, and awarded the California Book Award for Poetry in 2017. Her newest book, Vestigial, is just out from Litmus Press. When not writing or working, Duncan can be found running in the west Marin hills with her Australian cattle dog, Dublin, training with horses, or weaving small pine needle baskets. She holds an MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University and a variety of other degrees and credentials to certify her as human. Great Spirit knew it all along.

Dr. Kia Darling‐Hammond is a leader in the worlds of youth development, education, thriving and well‐being, and social justice research, with decades of work across communities, nonprofits, universities, K–12 schools, think tanks, and foundations. Dr. Darling‐Hammond's mission is to increase possibilities for thriving among those who experience complex marginalization. Her particular focus at the intersections of age × sexual orientation × gender × race × ability is grounded in the knowledge that design driven by those furthest from power improves all of our lives. Through her scholarship, Dr. Darling‐Hammond has developed an intersectional Bridge to Thriving Framework© (BtTF©), which she uses with educators, students, scholars, activists, youth, and others to advance the shared project of building universal thriving.