Author Bios

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 …

Joedy McCreary is a senior reporter at OpenSecrets. He has more than 25 years of journalism experience at The Associated Press, USA Today and WNCN-TV, the CBS affiliate in …

Vic Liu (they/she) lives and works in Brooklyn as a writer and artist. Their book, The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration (July 2024, PM Press), co-authored with …

Dr. Diana Hernández is a tenured Associate Professor at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, the Founding Principal Investigator of the Energy Equity, Housing and Health Program and …

Jeff Wright is an ordained minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

Maia Rosenfeld is a data reporter on the enterprise team at KFF Health News. As a hybrid numbers/news nerd, she uses data analysis to find the people behind statistics …

Reporter Jerod MacDonald-Evoy joined the Arizona Mirror from the Arizona Republic, where he spent 4 years covering everything from dark money in politics to Catholic priest sexual abuse scandals. …