Author Bios

Cortney Sanders is Senior Manager of State and Policy Analysis on the State Fiscal Policy team at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Marina Schauffler is a contributor to Environmental Health News.

Turquoise Baker is a Research and Program Associate in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, where she focuses on election security and voting rights.

Ruby Edlin is a Research and Program Associate in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, where she focuses on election security and disinformation.

Panagioti Tsolkas is the assistant editor for Human Rights Defense Center publications (Prison Legal News and Criminal Legal News), co-founder of Fight Toxic Prisons and former editor at Earth …

Rebecca Talbot is a researcher and writer whose work has appeared in Contrary, South Florida Poetry Journal and other publications. She is also an organizer with Immigrant Action Alliance.

Mariel Padilla is a general assignment reporter. Previously she covered breaking news at The New York Times where she contributed to COVID-19 coverage that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize, compiled …

Taylor Giorno is a money-in-politics reporter at OpenSecrets.

Nick Cleveland-Stout is a researcher at the Quincy Institute.

Allison Altshule is an intern at Solitary Watch and a senior studying government, journalism and statistics at Georgetown University.