David Rubin is a 25-year veteran of the fitness industry. He has owned Courage Fitness Durham, a functional group fitness and personal training gym in Durham, North Carolina, since 2008.

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Aaron Swartz was a programmer, entrepreneur, writer, and activist. He was deeply involved in the development of RSS and the organization Creative Commons. Aaron was also a co-founder of Reddit and an early contributor to Wikipedia. Because of his online activism, Aaron was prosecuted for multiple violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in 2011. During his prosecution, Aaron took his own life. He was 26 years old.

Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Lessig met Aaron when Aaron was a young teenager and served as a mentor to Aaron throughout his life.

Lessig is the founder of Equal Citizens and a founding board member of Creative Commons and serves on the Scientific Board of AXA Research Fund. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, he has received numerous awards including a Webby, the Free Software Foundation's Freedom Award, Scientific American 50 Award, and Fastcase 50 Award.

Cited by The New Yorker as “the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era,” Lessig has focused much of his career on law and technology, especially as it affects copyright. His current work addresses “institutional corruption”—relationships which, while legal, weaken public trust in an institution—especially as that affects democracy. 

His books include: They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy (November2019), Fidelity & Constraint: How the Supreme Court Has Read the American Constitution (May 2019), America, Compromised (2018), Republic, Lost v2 (2015), Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It (2011), Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy (2008), Code v2 (2006), The Future of Ideas (2001), and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999).

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Maxo Gaston is a civl rights and human rights lawyer. He served as an Assistant State’s Attorney for Cook County (Chicago), Illinois and as a legal consultant for the Human Rights Law Network in Delhi, India. Many people talk about changing the world for the better; Maxo has dedicated his career to actually doing it. His greatest accomplishment, however, remains his time as my roommate during law school.

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Charles Negy is an Associate Professor in the University of Central Florida’s psychology department, where he teaches a variety of controversial subjects, including Cross-Cultural Psychology and Sexual Behavior. And he is currently the subject of a UCF investigation for a tweet he recently posted.

Jonathan Turley's coverage: https://jonathanturley.org/2020/06/18/ucf-professor-under-investigation-and-police-protection-after-tweeting-about-black-privilege/

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Timothy Jackson is a distinguished university research professor of music theory at the University of North Texas, whose faculty he joined in 1998. Professor Jackson founded the Center for Schenkerian Studies at UNT’s College of Music. He is currently embroiled in controversy due to his defense of notable theorist Heinrich Schenker, with critics calling for Jackson’s tenure to be revoked.

Michael Thad Allen is the principal of Allen Law, LLC (https://allen-lawfirm.com), where he specializes in representing students and employees entangled in university proceedings. Prior to practicing law, Michael taught German and European history at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  He is currently representing Professor Jackson in Jackson’s proceedings with UNT.

Professor Ewell’s Article: https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.20.26.2/mto.20.26.2.ewell.html

Professor Jackson’s Response: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dTOWwlIsuiwsgAa4f1N99AlvG3-ngnmG/view

Statement from the National Association of Scholars: https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/unt-officials-continue-assault-on-academic-freedom

Coverage in National Review: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/at-the-university-of-north-texas-the-mob-comes-calling-for-a-music-theorist/

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Nadine Strossen is a professor at New York Law School. From 1991 through 2008, she served as President of the American Civil Liberties Union. Nadine is the author of “HATE: Why We Should Resist It With Free Speech, Not Censorship,” which has been praised by free speech advocates across the political spectrum. 

HATE on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/HATE-Should-Resist-Censorship-Inalienable/dp/0190859121

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Ron Collins and David Skover are two of America’s foremost legal scholars on free speech. Together, they are authors of The Trials of Lenny Bruce, in which they detail the legal troubles of Lenny Bruce–a standup comic and free-speech pioneer who paved the way for every comedian who came after him. Throughout his career, Lenny faced multiple obscenity charges–all based solely on words he said on stage. Lenny died a convict, but Ron and David worked tirelessly to clear his name; Lenny is now revered as the father of modern standup.

The Trials of Lenny Bruce: https://www.amazon.com/Trials-Lenny-Bruce-Audio-CD/dp/1570718377

The First Amendment Salons: https://www.thefire.org/first-amendment-library/special-collections/the-first-amendment-salons 

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Dr. William Deresiewicz is an author, essayist, and literary critic. He received his bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. from Columbia University and taught English at Yale University before becoming a full-time writer. In 2014, Dr. Deresiewicz wrote the best-selling book Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life.

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Dr. Peter Gray is a psychologist and research professor at Boston College. His research focuses on how we can create learning environments that optimize rather than suppress children's instinctive drive to learn. Dr. Gray is the author of Free to Learn and writes a regular column for Psychology Today.

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