Mychal Denzel Smith, Josie Duffy Rice, and Alex Vitale are three longtime writers and speakers on the subjects of anti-Black racism and policing.
Smith is the author of Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching and the forthcoming Stakes Is High. He is a Fellow at Type Media Center.
Duffy Rice is the president of The Appeal and host of the podcast Justice in America. She is a New America Fellow, a Type Media Fellow, and a Civic Media Fellow at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Innovation Lab.
Vitale is a professor of sociology and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College and a visiting professor at London South Bank University. He has spent the past thirty years writing about policing and consults with police departments and human rights organizations internationally. He is the author of City of Disorder and The End of Policing.
