Trillbilly Worker's Party Creators & Guests

Tarence Ray is a writer and co-host of the podcast Trillbilly Workers Party.

US-American politician (Trillbilly Workers Party)

Tanya Turner is a co-host of the Trillbilly Worker's Party podcast.

Sam Adler-Bell is a senior policy associate at The Century Foundation. He has a background in journalism, community organizing, and policy advocacy at the intersections of economic justice, race, and civil liberties. As a campaigner with the advocacy group Demand Progress, he coordinated nationwide campaigns to safeguard privacy and Internet freedom in an age of rampant surveillance. His writing on the labor movement, surveillance, and corruption has appeared in The Nation, In These Times, and elsewhere. He holds a BA in American History from Brown University.

Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a prison scholar and abolitionist activist. She is the Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics and professor of geography in Earth and Environmental Sciences at The City University of New York.Gilmore has been credited with inventing carceral geography, the “study of the interrelationships across space, institutions and political economy that shape and define modern incarceration”. She received the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Geographers.Gilmore's first book, "Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California," was published in 2007.Gilmore received her B.A. in Drama from Yale University and her Ph.D. in Economic Geography and Social Theory from Rutgers University.

Justin Roczniak, better known online as donoteat01, is a youtuber and podcaster known for using the city-building video game Cities Skylines to explain real-world politics and how it impacts infrastructure. He is also one of the hosts of Well There's Your Problem, a podcast about engineering disasters, with slides.

Daniel Immerwahr is an Associate Professor specializing in twentieth-century U.S. history within a global context.

Alex Pareene is a writer and editor. Currently, he is a staff writer at The New Republic.Pareene began writing a blog, and was hired by the political gossip blog "Wonkette." He went on to write for Gawker, then Salon, then the blog "Racket" with Matt Taibbi. He then returned to Gawker as editor-in-chief. When Gawker shut down, he became senior editor at Deadspin and then editor-in-chief of Splinter News.Pareene's first book, "A Tea People's History," was published in 2011, and his second book, "The Rude Guide To Mitt," was published in 2012.Pareene was raised in south Minneapolis. He attended New York University to study playwriting, but dropped out.