Ajamu Baraka is the founder and national organizer of the Black Alliance for Peace and was the 2016 candidate for vice president on the Green Party ticket. With over 52 years of movement work in the U.S. and internationally, Baraka is an internationally recognized human rights activist, writer, organizer, and geopolitical analyst. Currently, Baraka serves on the Executive Committee of the U.S. Peace Council and leadership body of the United National Anti-War Coalition (UNAC). He was awarded the US Peace Memorial 2019 Peace Prize and is the recipient of the Serena Shirm award for uncompromised integrity in journalism.

Akinyele Umoja is a scholar activist and founding member of the New Afrikan Peoples Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. Affectionately known as “Baba AK”, Umoja is currently a Professor of Africana Studies at Georgia State University. Most importantly, Baba Umoja has been an activist and organizer in the New Afrikan Independence Movement for well over five decades, primarily as an advocate for reparations, the freedom of political prisoners, and solidarity with people across the globe fighting for human rights and freedom from oppression.

Brian Becker is the National Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition. He is a founder of and a central organizer for the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

Cecilia is a political worker raised in an Indigenous family of militant steelworkers in Northern Mexico. In the last 4 years, she organized alongside low-wage workers in Nashville, Tennessee, and supported them to secure major victories against high-profile employers, landlords, and developers. Previously, she organized alongside farm and restaurant workers in Massachusetts. In 2019, she helped coordinate emerging community-led committees in towns directly impacted by the worst ICE raids in history. She is currently developing A Luta Sigue, a movement incubator dedicated to supporting the development of autonomous grassroots projects seeking to build long-lasting political power for working-class communities.

Claudia was born in the South Bronx to immigrant parents from the Dominican Republic. She is a popular educator, community organizer and theologian. In her role as Co-Executive Director at The People’s Forum, Claudia is committed to contribute her experiences and skills in the creation of cultural-educational space with organizers, educators and cultural workers/artists to continue producing, promoting and uplifting the cultural traditions that nourish and strengthen our communities in our struggles towards social justice. For over 20 years, she has been committed to movement building, and has actively participated in collective grassroots spaces, particularly in the communities of Washington Heights and The South Bronx.

Estevan Hernandez is a community organizer based in Atlanta’s Vine City, where he helps staff the Atlanta Liberation Center. Born and raised in California’s Bay Area, he first became an activist in 2011, during an upsurge of student protests against California university fee increases. Soon after, he joined the Party for Socialism and Liberation and has become a leading organizer in many areas of work. He is passionate about fighting for immigration rights and tenants’ rights. He is the coordinator of the Southern region of the PSL.

Eugene Puryear is a longtime organizer in the movement for socialism. He has worked for over 15 years on campaigns opposing police terror, in defense of tenants rights, against sanctions and imperialist wars and in solidarity with oppressed peoples everywhere. He is the co-founder of the Jobs Not Jails Movement, Stop Police Terror Project-DC and a founding member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Additionally, Puryear is the author of the 2013 book "Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America.

Jalessah Jackson is a Black (m)other and interdisciplinary cultural worker in Atlanta, GA. They are the founder of the Decolonial Feminist Collective (DFC), a project that seeks to build the capacities to resist coloniality through popular and political education, mutual aid, and solidarity-building. In their former position, they served as the Interim Executive Director of ARC-Southeast, an abortion fund and reproductive justice organization based in Atlanta, GA serving Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, and South Carolina. As a Reproductive Justice practitioner, Jalessah is committed to the fullest development of oppressed peoples’ collective power and self determination, and their approach to building power is rooted in a People's Centered Human Rights (PCHR) theory and practice.

Jorge Rocha is an organizer based in New York City. Jorge was born and raised in South Texas to working-class Mexican immigrants and moved to New York when they were 18. They currently sit on the Steering Committee for DSA’s International Committee, as well as sits on the Citywide Leadership Committee for NYC-DSA.

Kamau Franklin is the founder of Community Movement Builders, Inc. Kamau has been a dedicated community organizer for over thirty years, beginning in New York City and now based in Atlanta. For 18 of those years, Kamau was a leading member of a national grassroots organization dedicated to the ideas of self-determination and the teachings of Malcolm X. He has spearheaded organizing work in various areas including youth organizing and development, police misconduct, and the development of sustainable urban communities. Kamau has coordinated and led community cop-watch programs, liberation/freedom schools for youth, electoral and policy campaigns, large-scale community gardens, organizing collectives and alternatives to incarceration programs. Kamau was an attorney for ten years in New York with his own practice in criminal, civil rights, and transactional law. He now lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife and two children.

Karina Garcia is a Chicana organizer, popular educator, and member of the Central Committee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. She started organizing young women as a high school student in Southern California 20 years ago. At Columbia University, she led struggles for immigrant rights and financial aid reform, and against the Iraq war. She later taught high school math, co-founded the Justice Center en El Barrio in NYC and worked for many years as the Education Director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, training working-class Latina activists principally in New York, Texas, Virginia and Florida.

Kenia Alcocer has been organizing with Union de Vecinos Eastside Local of the Los Angeles Tenant's Union for the last 20 years. Mother of two and an immigrant from Guerrero, México. She is part of the Poor People’s Campaign – A National Call for Moral Revival, International People’s Assembly, University of the Poor and The National Welfare Rights Organization. Committed to the transformations and changes that our communities need and deserve like ending poverty, systemic racism, ending ecological devastation, the war economy and the distorted moral narrative of white supremacy Christian nationalism.

Keyanna Jones is a Political and Social Justice Activist and Community Organizer, who is a staunch advocate for quality, affordable childcare and equity in education. She currently works with Community Movement Builders to educate, engage and empower the Black Community in Atlanta, Georgia. She is an ordained minister and proprietor of E Equals MC Squared Educational Services, LLC, where she works as a Homeschool Curriculum Consultant, IEP Advocate and German Translator. She is the wife of Jerrod Moore and mother to their 5 unique and extraordinary children.

Layan Fuleihan is a popular educator and organizer. She is the Education Director of The People’s Forum and an editor of 1804 Books in New York City.

“Mama Cookie” Bradley, 62, is a fast food worker and home care worker from Durham, NC and a founding member of the Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW). Alongside other USSW members, she is helping teach other Southern workers about their rights and sharing the tools they need to organize their coworkers. Mama Cookie is a mother, grandmother and powerful community leader committed to building worker power across the South.

Manolo De Los Santos is the founder and co-executive director of the People’s Forum in New York City and researcher at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. His writing appears regularly in Monthly Review, People’s Dispatch, CounterPunch, La Jornada, and other progressive media. He coedited, most recently, Viviremos: Venezuela vs. Hybrid War (LeftWord, 2020), Comrade of the Revolution: Selected Speeches of Fidel Castro (LeftWord, 2021), Our Own Path to Socialism: Selected Speeches of Hugo Chávez (LeftWord, 2023)

Dr. Mariah Parker is an education scholar, hip hop artist and labor organizer rooted in Georgia and North Carolina. In 2022, they left four years in office as Athens-Clarke County Commissioner to help build worker power with the Union of Southern Service Workers in Atlanta, Georgia. They are also active in the movement to Defend the Atlanta Forest and Stop Cop City.

Monica Johnson is an Atlanta native and founding member of PSL Atlanta. She has organized around labor, housing justice, and more. She is devoted to lending her efforts to the movement to create a better world.

Mukasa Dada, formerly known as Willie Ricks, has been a prominent civil rights activist, community organizer and leader in the struggle for equal rights in the United States. Dada first gained recognition for his work as a field secretary in SNCC. While a member of SNCC, Dada actively planned and organized sit-ins, marches and public demonstrations throughout Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi. Following his work in SNCC, Dada became active in the Black Panther Party, along with his friend and colleague Kwame True, with whom he coined and helped popularize the slogan “Black Power”.

Phil Agnew is an organizer and Co Director of Black Men Build.

Saidi was born on the beautiful and bountiful island of Jamaica and migrated to NY at the age of 6. As Education Coordinator, she develops programming within The People's Forum and organizes popular education courses and classes. Before joining TPF, she lived and worked in the Caribbean, with a range of organizations advocating for comprehensive sexual education in the region, as well as furthering research on Black women and girls.

Satya is a nurse and a leading organizer in Atlanta with the ANSWER Coalition. Satya is committed to building the antiwar, anti-imperialist, and socialist movement in the United States.