Christina Heatherton

Christina Heatherton (she/her) is the author of Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution(University of California Press, 2022), the Spanish translation of which will be published by La Cigarra Press (Mexico City, Mexico) in 2025. She co-edited Policing the Planet:Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso, 2016) with Jordan T. Camp along with Freedom Now! Struggles for the Human Right to Housing in LA and Beyond (Freedom Now Books, 2012). She is currently the inaugural Everett and Joanne Elting Associate Professor for Human Rights and Global Citizenship and Associate Professor of American Studies and Human Rights at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. There she serves as Director of the Trinity Social Justice Institute and co-hosts the web series/podcast, Conjuncture.

2025 Inside Ideas

Moderator  – Organized Resistance From the Ground Up

Dan Alter

Dan Alter’s poems, reviews and translations have been published in journals including Field, Fourteen Hills, and Zyzzyva; his first collection My Little Book of Exiles won the 2022 Cowan Poetry Prize. A volume of translations Take a Breath, You’re Getting Excited, from the Hebrew of Yakir Ben-Moshe, was published by Ben Yehuda Press in September 2024, and Hills Full of Holes, a second collection of poems, by Fernwood Press in March 2025. He lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley. He works at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley.

2025 Writers’ Workshops

Speaker A Compass in the Wilderness: Poetry in the Age of Environmental Crisis