David Abram is an ecologist, anthropologist, and philosopher who lectures and teaches widely around the world. The recipient of a Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, David was named by both the Utne Reader and the British journal Resurgence as one of a hundred visionaries transforming contemporary culture.

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Alan I. Abramowitz is Alben W. Barkley Professor of Political Science at Emory University and a regular blogger on Sabato's Crystal Ball, which describes him as "one of the nation's top experts on election modeling." His most recent books include The Disappearing Center, Voice of the People, and The Polarized Public.

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Rachel Carlton Abrams, MD, received her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco, and a master's degree in holistic health and medical sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. She is board-certified in family medicine and integrative and holistic medicine.

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Jonathan Abrams is an award-winning journalist who has covered the NBA for ESPN's Grantland, as well as for the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California.

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David Abrams, a U.S. Army veteran, is the author of Fobbit, which was a 2012 New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. His stories have appeared in Esquire, Glimmer Train, Narrative, and other publications. He lives in Butte, Montana.

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Fran Abrams is a journalist and author with more than thirty years' experience of reporting on education. She has worked for all the national broadsheet newspaper groups and for fifteen years was a reporter on BBC Radio 4's File on 4 program. She is a trustee of the Education Media Centre and has written numerous books.

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Nathan Abrams is a professor in film at Bangor University in Wales. He is founding coeditor of Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal, as well as author of The New Jew in Film, and Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual, and coauthor of Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of his Final Film.

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Scott Abrams is the coauthor of Fitz of Rage.

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Seth Abrutyn is associate professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia. Abrutyn specializes in youth suicide and is also a general sociologist whose research rests at the intersection of mental health, emotions, social psychology, and culture, and which has won several national awards.

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Amy Absher holds a PhD in history from the University of Washington. She is the author of The Black Musicians and the White City: Race and Music in Chicago, 1900–1967.

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Mumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning journalist and author of two best-selling books, Live From Death Row and Death Blossoms. In 1981 he was elected president of the Association of Black Journalists. He holds a BA from Goddard College and an MA from California State University, Dominguez Hills.

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Izzeldin Abuelaish, MD, MPH, is a Palestinian physician and infertility expert who was born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and who now serves as an associate professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.

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