Author Bios

Lee Hedgepeth is Inside Climate News’ Alabama reporter. Raised in Grand Bay, Alabama, a small town on the Gulf Coast, Lee holds master’s degrees in community journalism and political …

Mitch Perry has covered politics and government in Florida for more than two decades. Most recently he is the former politics reporter for Bay News 9. He has also …

Madeline Thigpen is Capital B Atlanta's criminal justice reporter.

Feleecia Guillen is the IPS New Mexico Fellow. 

Elise is an environmental reporter and Report for America corps member at the Louisiana Illuminator, focusing her coverage on water and its impacts throughout Louisiana and the Mississippi River …

William Blake is a writer serving a life sentence in the New York state prison system. Blake's writing has been published on Solitary Watch, including his essay "A Sentence …

Ralph Chapoco covers state politics as a senior reporter for States Newsroom. His main responsibility is the criminal justice system in Alabama.

Eman Basher is a Gazan writer, former English teacher, and graduate assistant with a passion for storytelling and resistance through words. A mother of three, she has published work in …

Colin Kinniburgh is a reporter at New York Focus, covering the state’s climate and environmental politics. He has worked in media for more than a decade, across print, television, audio, …

Lee Schlenker is a research associate with the Global South program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and a MA candidate in Latin American Studies at Georgetown University's …