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Alexandra Bowman is an illustrator, designer, and muralist based in Oakland, California. She creates art that reflects on the female experience and the importance of representation through inclusive imagery of gender, race, and culture. The Stay Woke glossary shows that language can be a tool of oppression, but when we form a response to that oppression, language can also be used as a tool for liberation. Defining our pain as well as our joy is a form of resistance. Twitter: @alexbowman

Oscar Perry Abello is a New York City-based journalist covering community and economic development across the United States. He is currently senior economics correspondent at Next City. After covering public banking and campaigns supporting it around the country, in the dead of winter, with high temperatures hovering around -1掳F, Oscar headed to North Dakota to talk to residents about their unique state-owned bank. He learned how few North Dakotans realize the extent of the bank鈥檚 reach and influence on their local economies. Twitter: @oscarthinks 

Irene Rinaldi is a freelance illustrator based in Rome. Her work is inspired by her love of engraving and print-making as well as mid-century graphic design. To illustrate 鈥淭he World We Want鈥� cover, Rinaldi says: 鈥淚 imagined our minds as a prism that can transform emotions into a vision, ideas into action, and ideals into reality for a better future. The rainbow coming out the woman鈥檚 eyes symbolizes worldwide peace, human rights, diversity, acceptance, and pride, but also a colorful, optimistic vision of the future despite the current state of things. After all, rainbows come after the rain.鈥�