Danuta Kean is a writer and publishing analyst. She edited Writing the Future, about diversity in book publishing, and is currently working on Centre Stage, a report on diversity in the UK theatre for the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, due out later this year. She is also books editor of Mslexia, the feminist magazine for women writers.
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Alessio Colonnelli is an Italian freelance journalist who has written for Open Democracy, The Independent, Foreign Policy, International Business Times and Politico Europe
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