Author Bios

Jon Kirkpatrick is an incarcerated journalist at Washington State Corrections Center.

Based in his hometown of Haut Limbe in rural North Haiti, Elio Dortilus is an agriculturalist, community organizer and facilitator in rural development. While studying agronomy at the Université …

Micah Herskind is an organizer, policy advocate, and writer based in Atlanta, GA.

Julia Gledhill is an analyst in the Center for Defense Information at the Project on Government Oversight. Before joining POGO, she was a foreign policy associate at the Friends …

Shealeigh Voitl is associate editor at Project Censored. A regular contributor to the Project's yearbook series, her writing has been featured in State of the Free Press 2023 and Ms. Magazine.

Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez is a reporter for Kaiser Health News’s rural health desk based in Elko, Nevada. She explores the ways health issues affect communities in rural areas, including …

Inci joined OpenSecrets as a reporting intern in January 2023. Prior to OpenSecrets, she wrote daily news for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project where she covered international …

Dan Schwartz is an independent journalist based in Colorado.

Edwin Rubis is a cannabis prisoner serving a 40-year sentence in federal prison for a nonviolent marijuana crime. His release date is 2031. Here's how you can help Edwin. …

William Kleinknecht is a longtime newspaper reporter who covered politics, government, criminal justice, and the environment for the Detroit Free Press, New York Daily News, and Newark Star-Ledger. The …