Author Bios

Joseph Winters is a reporter at Grist.

Eleanor Klibanoff is a women’s health reporter, based in Austin, where she covers abortion, maternal health care, gender-based violence and LGBTQ issues, among other topics. She was previously with the …

Tom Conway is the international president of the United Steelworkers Union (USW).

Nitakuwa Barrett Orsak is a community health program manager and nurse at the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, and a Public Voices fellow of The OpEd …

Makaelah is a writer for Facing South, an online magazine published by the Institute for Southern Studies. She is the institute's 2022 Julian Bond Fellow. Previously, she was a …

Ivana Nikolić Hughes is president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and senior lecturer in chemistry at Columbia University.

Sudip Bhattacharya is a doctoral candidate in political science at Rutgers University. He also has a background as a reporter, having gotten his Master's in journalism at Georgetown University. You …

Maryam Saleh is an investigative editor for Reveal. Previously, she worked at The Intercept, where she most recently edited stories about immigration, criminal justice and international human rights. She …

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 …