Julienne (she/they) is an artist and co-founder of Libertroph Magazine, a culture-building project archiving white anti-racist organizing, past and present. Julienne makes art and shares stories that can serve as invitations into liberated futures. Julienne brings over seven years of experience as a narrative strategist at a racial and economic justice nonprofit, where they partnered with city government, data partners, artists, and local community members to tell stories about organizing to build a racially-just world.

In their art and organizing, Julienne seeks to reconnect with their cultural memory as a means of defying the white supremacy that incentivized their ancestors to give up their cultures. Julienne comes from generations of family with roots in New York by way of ancestors in Sicily, Poland, and west Ireland. Julienne's anti-racist practice is largely informed by People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB) and their Undoing Racism Workshop, and Resmaa Menakem and his Somatic Abolitionism practice.

Julienne is most drawn to collaborative work, and enjoys creative partnerships with grassroots organizers and nonprofit groups to create zines, comics and illustrations that uplift racial, economic, disability and healing justice. She is inspired by nature and what it can teach us about reciprocity, organizing, and flourishing.

Julienne lives in Washington DC, where she loves long walks in Rock Creek Park, tending to her balcony garden, and getting to know her neighbors.

Elizabeth Woodson is a 12th generation European American settler descended from people of Anglo-Saxon, Celtic and Germanic cultures. For a decade, Elizabeth has worked towards racial equity through philanthropy at the Emerson Collective, direct services at Columbus House and the Bridgeport Public Defenders, and public education at the Equal Justice Initiative where she contributed to the research, development and opening of the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Informed by growing up in segregated Fairfield County, Connecticut and fighting sexual violence as student body president at Stanford University, Elizabeth is an experienced Theater of the Oppressed facilitator, community organizer, and researcher. Elizabeth is now directing Reckon With, an organization that is developing an ongoing, peer-support experience for people who are racialized as "white" and are motivated to acknowledge, interrupt, and repair racial harm as it emerges within ourselves, with "white" family and friends, and inside the institutions we are part of every day. Elizabeth lives on unceded Maskoke territory (Montgomery, Alabama).

Stephanie Land received a BA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago and an MA in Fine Art Printmaking from the Royal College of Art in London. Her work has been featured in exhibitions and publications throughout the US and UK. She has received an award from the Illinois Chapter of The National Museum of Women In The Arts and an Illinois Arts Council Grant and was an Artist in Residence of Process Space, a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council studio residency on Governors Island in NYC. Stephanie was a featured artist in The Whiteness Issue of The Racial Imaginary Institute and Issue 16 of Maake Magazine. She lives in Brooklyn, NYC.

Annie Ferguson is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at Arizona State University. Annie's current research focuses on how white people's emotions impact our engagement in antiracism: where we get stuck, how emotions play a role, and how some people manage their emotions to stay involved in healthy, productive, and sustainable ways. Before re-entering academia, Annie spent 15 years working in agriculture and community/economic development in Montana, Idaho, and Oregon. Annie is focused on engaging white folks with love in pursuit of liberation for all.

Alyssa Smaldino (she/they) is an anti-racism organizer, facilitator, coach, and consultant. Some of their current work includes co-founding Libertroph Magazine, a culture-building project archiving white anti-racist organizing efforts; facilitating Undoing Racism workshops as a trainer/organizer with the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond; raising funds for CFHI’s global health work; and planning liberatory events as a consultant with Resource Generation. Alyssa’s Substack newsletter, care culture, uplifts insights and reflections from their work and play.

Alyssa started her career in the global health field, most notably as Executive Director of GlobeMed, where she organized and trained students and grassroots leaders in the movement for global health equity. She has also worked with community development organizations to design and facilitate anti-racism curricula and programs for public servants. 

In Alyssa’s free time you can find them taking long walks along the East River with their puppy, exploring NYC’s art and culture, or breaking a sweat on the dance floor with beloved queer community.

kelly j drumright is an anti-disciplinary artist, writer, and audio producer working at the intersections of madness/disability/debility, transness/queerness, and anti-colonialism/imperialism. Part of their art practice involves combining found and foraged items with bold colors and textures, giving new life to paper ephemera (e.g., brochures, greeting cards, letters, movement organization mailers, etc.) that would otherwise likely be discarded. kelly grows many of the plants that appear in their work. 

kelly currently works as a gardener and lives in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains in so-called Colorado. Their home on the internet is kellyjdrumright.com. 

Gratitude to kelly for guiding the direction of Libertroph Magazine’s image descriptions and writing them.

For over 40 years, Margery Freeman has been an organizer and trainer with The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, a national, multiracial, antiracist organization that provides training and organizing in “Undoing Racism/Community Organizing” with diverse organizations and groups across the country and internationally. She also works with educators, human service practitioners, and other social justice activists to support their efforts to bring anti-racist principles, analyses and practices to their work.

Margery is a lifetime educator. Her work spans the field from early childhood to public school and adult literacy education. During the 1980’s and early 1990’s, she worked with the NationalCouncil of Churches Child Advocacy office and directed the Ecumenical Child Care Network, a national church-related child care network. In 1995, Margery joined the adult literacy community and served for 10 years as executive director of YMCA Educational Services, the adult and family literacy branch of the YMCA of Greater New Orleans. From Fall 2004 to the Fall 2007, she served as Regional Services Coordinator for ProLiteracy, an international adult literacy organization.

Margery is married to David Billings. They have three children and eight grandchildren.

David Billings is an anti-racist community organizer and historian. He is the author of DEEP DENIAL: The Persistence of White Supremacy in U.S. History and Life. He is one of the founding organizers of The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond and is co-founder of European Dissent, a national collective of white people dedicated to the dismantling of racism.

David is a retired United Methodist minister. He lives in the Bronx, N.Y. though born in Mississippi and considers New Orleans, LA home.

Taylor Maroney graduated with a MFA in painting from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 2020 after earning a BFA in 2012 from the University of New Hampshire. As of 2020 Taylor has been the recipient of two Elizabeth Greenshield International Grants and in 2017, Umass Dartmouth awarded them the Distinguished Artist Fellowship to study in the MFA program. A Figurative artist since the beginning, Taylor's work is a celebration and an acknowledgment of the queer, trans bodies that have been largely left out of contemporary and historical figurative representation.

Darcy Ottey (she/they) is an educator, coach, cultural strategist, ritual practitioner, and the author of Rites and Responsibilities: A Guide to Growing Up. The descendant of Quaker settlers, British coalminers, and Ukrainian peasants, land-based cultural practices have been part of Darcy’s life since her youth. Now in her mid-40’s, Darcy identifies as a queer, white, class privileged, able-bodied woman. Through projects including Re-Calling our Ancestors, Adjacent Education & Consulting, Fierce Allies, and Youth Passageways, Darcy devotes her life energy to deconstructing dominant pathways into and through adulthood and offering healing alternatives rooted in ancestry, body, land, culture, and accountable relationships. She loves dancing (especially under the full moon), learning to make Slavic folks dolls, and preserving food and plant medicines.

Shula Pesach (she/they) is a community ritualist, Jewish educator, and trans theologian. Shula lives as a white settler on Nipmuc Land, and traces their ancestry from diasporic Ashkenazi Jewish peoples from the Danube and Dnieper watersheds. She is neurodivergent, working-class, chronically ill, and transgender, with citizenship and education privilege. They serve movements for flourishing and collective liberation through her work with Re-Calling our Ancestors, Weaving Earth Center for Relational Education, and as the Program Director for Taproot. Shula is an apprentice of bird-language, the tarot, and stretching strudel dough.

Jeff Raderstrong is a writer and ghostwriter focused on the intersection of politics, the economy and culture, who also happens to think and write a lot about parenting. His work has previously been featured in places like MSNBC, Newsweek, and Forbes. His most recent piece on parenting was for The TODAY Show.

Laura Stein (she/her) is the founder and principal consultant at Rooted Evolution. She is an organizational leadership coach and consultant, embodied facilitator, creative producer, community organizer, and dance teacher. She has worked with dozens of organizations, ranging from youth development to arts groups and wellness businesses. Laura’s greatest professional legacy is Dancing Grounds (DG), a New Orleans nonprofit dedicated to arts and social justice. As founding Executive Director, she started the organization offering dance classes in her living room and grew DG through a decade of remarkable growth and impact in collaboration with hundreds of local artists, reaching thousands of youth and adult students. Laura is a passionate anti-racist organizer who applies her core values of integrity, relationships, joy, and justice to everything she does. She is an organizer with the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond and a Trainer in Training for their Undoing Racism® and Community Organizing workshop. She also organizes with European Dissent New Orleans and Jewish Voices for Peace. She’s currently working to launch a new project, Gentrification Reparations Fund, in collaboration with other New Orleans leaders in arts and social justice. Laura is a white Ashkenazi Jewish cis woman, a fourth-generation Philadelphian who has called New Orleans home since 2012. Her Jewish culture, especially the tenet of “tikkun olam” (repairing the world), has fundamentally shaped her life’s work. She loves dancing, singing, dreaming, mentoring, teaching, learning, and being a mother, twin sister, wife, daughter, granddaughter, and friend.