Author Bios

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 …

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).