Tamisha Anthony

Tamisha is an illustrator working for various clients such as Penguin Random House, Macmillan Publishers, Little Brown, and Chronicle Books. She finds that educating little ones or the young at heart always inspires her art. She has been an educator for the past several years teaching at institutions such as the New-York Historical Society and the Harlem School of the Arts. Currently she is teaching an art history + illustration class called Redrawing Black History with Lilla Rogers for Make Art That Sells.

Casey Michel

Casey Michel is the director of the Combating Kleptocracy Program at the Human Rights Foundation. He is the author of multiple books on illicit finance, international money laundering, corruption, and authoritarianism, including Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World, and American Kleptocracy: How the US Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History, which The Economist named as one of the top five books to read to understand financial crime.

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