Gender & Women's Studies Professor and Director of Media Studies
UC Berkeley

Minoo Moallem, a Gender & Women's Studies professor and Director of Media Studies at UC Berkeley, has published many papers, articles and book chapters on Iran, the Middle East, gender and other topics and  is the author of several books, including: Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Cultural Politics of Patriarchy in Iran, and the co-editor of Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and The State. Professor Moallem is affiliated with many centers and institutes, including the Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Berkeley Center for New Media; Center for the Study of Race and Gender; and the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies, to name only a few.

Climate Journalist and Author

Madeline Ostrander is a Seattle-based climate journalist and the author of At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth, one of Kirkus Review’s 100 best nonfiction books of 2022. The former Senior Editor of YES! Magazine, her writing has also appeared in The Atlantic, The NewYorker.com, The Nation, PBS's NOVA Next, Slate, and numerous other outlets.