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Moya Bailey is a faculty member in the Department of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies and the Program in Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University and is an affiliated faculty member in the Africana Studies Program at Northeastern. Bailey focuses her scholarship on Black women and media and is especially interested in how equal justice, race, gender, and sexuality intersect in the digital humanities. She also is the digital alchemist for the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network. As an activist, Bailey was at the forefront of protests challenging misogyny in media, which resulted in her coining the term misogynoir. This term “describe[s] the unique anti-Black misogyny that Black women experience.” Bailey is co-author of #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice (2020) and is the author of the forthcoming monograph Transforming Misogynoir: Black Women’s Digital Resistance in US Culture. www.moyabailey.com Twitter: @moyazb

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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. He has served as chair of the Department of African and African American Studies and was the founding director of the Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality at Duke. Darity’s research focuses on inequality by race, class and ethnicity, stratification economics, schooling and the racial achievement gap, North-South theories of trade and development, skin shade and labor market outcomes, the economics of reparations, the Atlantic slave trade and the Industrial Revolution, the history of economics, and the social psychological effects of exposure to unemployment. His most recent book, co-authored with A. Kirsten Mullen, is From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century (2020). Twitter: @SandyDarity

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