Author Bios

Evan Charney is Associate Professor of the Practice of Public Policy and Political Science, and a Fellow at Duke Institute for Brain Sciences.

Nina Martin is ProPublica’s first reporter covering gender and sexuality. She joined the staff in September 2013 after spending much of the last decade at San Francisco magazine as …

Guadalupe Jimenez is a high school senior. She lives in San Francisco, CA with her parents and siblings.

Vianey DeLaRosa is a senior in High School, in San Francisco, CA.

Michael Villalobos is a senior in a San Francisco high school and is currently taking an AP Government class.

Destinee Brigham is a high school senior in San Francisco. 

Santiago Navarro is an economist, a freelance journalist, photographer and contributor to the Americas Program, Desinformémonos and SubVersiones.

Roger Drouin is a freelance environmental journalist. His recent articles have appeared in Grist, Yale Environment 360, Mother Jones and The Atlantic. Some of his nature photography and environmental …

Heather Parton is from Santa Monica, California. She founded the blog Hullabaloo.

Tyler J. Pollard is with the McMaster Centre for Scholarship in the Public Interest.