Class, Race, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism

Michael Zweig, emeritus professor of economics and
founding director of the Center for Study of Working Class Life at the
State University of New York at Stony Brook, received the SUNY
Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. His past books include Religion and Economic Justice; The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret; and What's Class Got to Do with It? American Society in the Twenty-First Century. From 2005 to 2006, he served as executive producer of the documentary Meeting Face to Face: The Iraq-U.S. Labor Solidarity Tour. In 2009 he wrote, produced, and directed the film Why Are We in Afghanistan?
which won the Working Class Studies Association Studs Terkel Award for
media and journalism. In 2014 he received their award for lifetime
contributions to the field of working-class studies.

Rev. William J. Barber II was elected president of the
local NAACP youth council in 1978 at the age of 15. He then enrolled at
North Carolina Central University and became student government
president at age 19. He received his bachelor's degree in political
science from NCCU, cum laude, in 1985; a Master of Divinity degree from
Duke University in 1989; and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Drew
University, with a concentration in public policy and pastoral care, in
2003. He is the author of We Are Called to Be a Movement, Revive Us Again: Vision and Action in Moral Organizing and The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear.
He is national co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call
for Moral Revival and director of the Center for Public Theology and
Public Policy at Yale Divinity School.