Alexandrea J. Ravenelle is assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy.

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Merry Ravenell primarily writes dark fantasy and paranormal fiction, usually with characters that have sharp claws, large fangs, and dangerous appetites. Merry runs the occasional 10K and enjoys coloring books, web comics, and cheesy disaster movies. She lives in the North Bay area of San Francisco with her husband, David.

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Lynn Raven is an award-winning writer and former entertainment publicist.

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Vince Rause is a freelance writer and journalist whose stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and many other publications.

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Onjali Q. Raúf is the founder and CEO of Making HerStory, a UK nonprofit that works to fight human trafficking and gender-based abuses and crimes. She lives in the UK. The Boy at the Back of the Class is her debut novel.

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Eric Rauchway is a distinguished historian and expert on the Progressive and New Deal eras at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of several acclaimed books on the subject, including The Money Makers, The Great Depression and the New Deal, and Blessed Among Nations. He lives in Davis, California.

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Herman Raucher wrote four plays, six novels, and seven films, among them being Summer of '42 which was both a best-selling novel and a box office success. Raucher's cult film, Hieronymus Merkin, won the Best Original Screenplay award from The Writers Guild of Great Britain.

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Sheila A. M. Rauch is professor of psychology in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Emory University School of Medicine. She serves as clinical director of the Emory University Veterans Program and director of mental health research and program evaluation at the VA Atlanta Healthcare System.

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Ali Rattansi is the author of Racism: A Very Short Introduction and Multiculturalism: A Very Short Introduction. He is honorary visiting professor at the department of sociology at University College London.

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Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen is Merle Curti Associate Professor and Vilas-Borghesi Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches US intellectual and cultural history. She is the author of the prize-wining American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas.

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Gabriel Rathweg is author of the bestselling series I Am Gamer and Warrior Academy. He has authored many other books in the science fiction genre, including The Tragic Kingdom and the From Chef To Crafter To Conqueror series.

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Akshat Rathi is an award-winning senior reporter for Bloomberg News and host of Zero, a climate podcast for Bloomberg Green. He has a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Oxford, and a BTech in chemical engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology in Mumbai. He has worked for Quartz and the Economist.

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