Angela Y. Douglas (MPA, Georgia State University) is a practitioner-activist and seasoned political scientist. Formerly an elected official and collegiate educator, Douglas works as a public engagement and community development strategist in private practice. She has published book chapters and speaks on rural politics, social justice, and US governance. Emmanuel D. Harris II, PhD from Washington Univ. in St. Louis, where he was a Chancellor’s Fellow. A Professor of Spanish at the Univ. of North Carolina Wilmington, he also instructs classes in Africana Studies. The English translator of the Afro-Peruvian novel Malambo (2005), Harris co-edited The Trayvon Martin in US: An American Tragedy (2015).