Author Bios

Starling Thomas is a poet, writer, filmmaker, and visual storyteller. A mother and survivor of incarceration, she creates sacred spaces through storytelling, centered on healing, justice, and the lived …

E.M. is an incarcerated writer and student who loves eating new food, learning, and helping others whenever the opportunity presents itself.

Shalina Chatlani covers health care and environmental justice for Stateline. Stateline is part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization.

Connor Echols is a reporter for Responsible Statecraft. He was previously the managing editor of the NonZero Newsletter.

Arti Walker-Peddakotla (she/they) is a William H. Hastie Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School, movement lawyer and community organizer, US Army veteran, and former Oak Park Village Trustee. Arti's scholarship and …

Aaron Hughes is an artist, curator, and anti-war veteran whose interdisciplinary collaborative art practice spans drawing, printmaking, and performance. He is involved with a range of art and activist …

Ghoncheh Ghavami is an Iranian feminist activist and researcher, as well as founder and chief editor of Harasswatch, an independent feminist platform launched in Iran in 2018.

Bahareh Badiei is an Iranian feminist media researcher and educator.

Terry A. Kupers, MD is a psychiatrist with a background in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, forensics, and social and community psychiatry. He has testified in several large class action litigations concerning …

Deborah Zalesne is a professor of law at the City University of New York School of Law where she teaches contract and commercial law from a social justice perspective. …