Chandra Talpade Mohanty is a feminist scholar-activist and educator in the Women’s and Gender Studies department at Syracuse University. Chandra’s activism, scholarship and teaching focus on transnational feminist theory, anti-capitalist feminist praxis, anti-racist education, and the politics of knowledge.  She is author of Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity (2003) and co-editor of five volumes including Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism (1991), Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures, (1997), and Feminism and War: Challenging U.S. Imperialism (2008).  Chandra is a steering committee member of the Municipal Services Project (municipalservicesproject.org), a transnational research and advocacy group focused on alternatives to privatization in the Global South, a founding member of the Democratizing Knowledge Collective at Syracuse University, and Coordinating Team member of the Future of Minority Studies Research Project (http://fmsproject.cornell.edu). She is series editor of “Comparative Feminist Studies” (Palgrave/Macmillan) and was a member of the Indigenous and Women of Color Solidarity delegation to Palestine in June 2011. Chandra has co-edited Feminist Freedom Warriors (Haymarket Books, 2018) with Linda Carty

Linda E. Carty is a Black feminist scholar-activist and educator in the African American Studies Department at Syracuse University. Linda’s activist, research, scholarship and teaching spans Black women’s labor struggles, migration and sexuality in Canada, the Caribbean and the U.S. She is author of “A Genealogy of Marxist Feminism in Canada,” (2014); “Not a Nanny: A Gendered, Transnational Analysis of Caribbean Domestic Workers in New York City” (2003) and “The Discourse of Empire and the Social Construction of Gender” (2002). Linda is editor of the anthology And Still We Rise: Feminist Mobilization in Contemporary Canada (1993). She is co-author/contributor to We’re Rooted Here: Essays in African Canadian Women’s History (1994) and Unsettling Relations: The University as a Site of Feminist Struggles (1991). Linda has co-authored “Solidarity Work in Transnational Feminism: The Question of Class and Location,” with Monisha Das Gupta (2009) and Mapping Transnational Feminist Engagements: Neoliberalism and the Politics of Solidarity (2014) with Chandra Talpade Mohanty. She has also published many activist writings, the most recent being, “Will the State Ever Acknowledge Domestic Violence in St Kitts-Nevis as Needing its Attention?” (2018). She works with UNAIDS-Caribbean, has been a member of The Black Women’s Collective, Toronto; Caribbean Women’s Health Association – Immigrant Services, New York City and is a founding member of the Democratizing Knowledge Collective (http://democratizingknowledge.syr.edu) at SU.