Dana Villa is the Packey J. Dee Professor of Political Theory at the University of Notre Dame. He has written a number of books and articles on Hannah Arendt, and has also published on Socrates, Tocqueville, Hegel, Mill, Weber, and the Frankfurt School.

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Rebecca Vilkomerson has worked in social justice movement building for several decades, as an organizer, fundraiser, organizational development consultant, and strategist. From 2009-2019 she was the executive director of Jewish Voice for Peace. She is currently the codirector of the Funding Freedom project.

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Suchitra Vijayan was born and raised in Madras, India. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, GQ, the Boston Review, the Nation, and Foreign Policy. She is an award-winning photographer, as well as the founder and executive director of the Polis Project, a hybrid research and journalism organization.

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Kate Vigurs is a freelance historian, author, and academic advisor. Her PhD in history was at the University of Leeds and she is a frequent contributor for TV, radio, and the press.

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Andrew Vietze is a writer and Baxter State Park ranger. He has written more than a dozen books, including Boon Island: A True Story of Mutiny, Shipwreck, and Cannibalism, winner of the 2013 Independent Publisher Book Award, and Becoming Teddy Roosevelt: How a Maine Guide Inspired America's 26th President. He spends six months a year as a ranger in the wilds of the Katahdin region.

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Ed Viesturs climbs and loves to seek out new adventures. He lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington, with his wife and three children. His books include The Mountain, The Will to Climb, K2, and No Shortcuts to the Top.

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Salka Viertel (1889–1978) was born Salomea Sara Steuermann in Galicia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the late 1920s, Salka and her husband, Berthold Viertel, left Berlin for Hollywood, where Berthold wrote screenplays and directed films and Salka began acting in motion pictures.

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Jack Viertel is the senior vice president of Jujamcyn Theaters, which owns and operates five Broadway theaters. He has been involved in dozens of productions presented by Jujamcyn since 1987, including multiple Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winners, from City of Angels to Angels in America.

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Artie Vierkant is an artist and writer. He, Beatrice Adler-Bolton, and and social scientist Philip Rocco started the Death Panel podcast in 2018, a popular twice-weekly podcast on "struggles over healthcare, economic inequality, social justice, and the people, policies, and media narratives that stand in the way."

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Mark A. Vieira is a filmmaker, photographer, and writer specializing in Hollywood history. His books include Hurrell's Hollywood Portraits, Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince, and, with Tony Curtis, The Making of Some Like It Hot. He maintains a portrait studio in the historic Granada Buildings in Los Angeles.

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Lynn Viehl is the author of more than forty-five novels, including Nightshine and Shadowlight.

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Kathryn Vidlock MD is an associate professor at Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine. She is fellowship trained in primary care sports medicine. She has been the team physician for the University of Iowa, local teams, and the physician for athletes from the recreational level to Olympic qualifiers.

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