first, we have juliet hooker there on -- on my far right. juliet hooker is a professor of political science at brown university and specializes in racial justice, multiculturalism, latin american political thought and black political thought and of a crow descendant and indigenous politics and she's the author of "race and solidarity," a book that's become a good nightstand and "theorizing race in the merks." and her current research project examines the politics of loss, aspectsch which have appeared in a couple of journal articles discussing black protest and white grievance and black lives matter and the paradoxes of u.s. black politics. next to her we have tehama lopez bun yaes, assistant professor for school of conflict resolution and analysis at george mason university. she has specializations in racial attitudes and ideologies. dr. lopez bunyasi is creating a manuscript, "breaking the contract," and this project examines the role and perceptions of white privilege on racial attitudes and white americans. she's co-authoring a book call