People Who Help Me See

An Incomplete + Always Expanding Catalogue of People Who Help Me See

Rainesford Stauffer

Angus Johnston

Cory Doctorow

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Rick Griffith

Alexander Chee

Brandon Taylor

Lyn Slater PhD

Cornell Watson

Garrett Bucks

Saeed Jones

Min Jin Lee

Barbara Kingsolver

Kelly Hayes

Tressie Mcmillan Cottom

Sari Botton

Emily Wilson

Aubrey Gordon

Desirrae Thomas

Katherine de Vos Devine

Maud Newton

Chris La Tray

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Dr. Janan Graham-Russell

Kaitlyn Greenidge

Justina Blakeney

Éireann Lorsung

Ashley C. Ford

Angela Y. Davis

Rebecca Solnit

Anne Carson

Megan K. Stack

Soraya Mcdonald

Mona Fastvold

Rhiannon Giddens

R.O. Kwon

Alida Sun

Margaret Prescod

Gillian Brockell

Jasmin Malik Chua

Mehrsa Baradan

Emily St. John Mandel

Gabrielle Blair

Lane Anderson

Kristen Richardson

Elizabeth Sanchez

Cathy Chaplin

Adriene Nieves

Sarah Kay Miller

Erica Allen-Kim

Architectural History professor, author of Building Little Saigon: Refugee Urbanism in American Cities and Suburbs, excellent dresser

Jess Grose

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Jalynne Geddes

Nina de Freitas

Pooja Lakshmin, MD

Yiyun Li

Mariame Kaba

Organizer, educator, archivist and curator. Founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth

Sophie Blackall

Two-time Caldecott Medal winner, NYTimes Best-Selling illustrator & author; director of Milkwood, a creative retreat for the children's

Mindy Thomas

Host of Wow in the World, bestselling children's book author, co-founder of Tinkercast

Jesmyn Ward

Writer, Two time National Book Award Winner, Professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Andrew W. Mellon

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

NYT bestselling author, editor, speaker.

Joy Harjo

23rd Poet Laureate of the United States, author, musician.

Alissa Wilkinson

NYT movie critic, educator and author of  “We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine”

Joanna Ho

NYT bestselling children's book author, speaker, educator

Lily Gladstone

Actress, activist, narrator and executive producer of Bring Them Home

Maggie Smith

Poet, NYT bestselling author, host of The Slowdown

Maria Popova

Creator of The Marginalian, Writer, Maker of Bird Divinations

Jesi Taylor

Archivist, Poet, Researcher Anti-Colonial Science + Ecology, Chaplain-in-Training

Camille Andros

Children's book author, public health activist, Brontë expert.