Author Bios

Max Graham is a Food and Agriculture Fellow at Grist.

Mecca Monarch is a chronically ill butterfly of Middle Eastern descent living on Turtle Island.

Jasmine Corazon is a Next Leaders intern at the Institute for Policy Studies.

Dave Kamper is a labor organizer and writer in Minnesota. He helped form the Graduate Employees Organization at the University of Illinois in 2002.

Cody Bloomfield is a journalist covering policing and protest. They are the former communications director of Defending Rights & Dissent.

Zoya Teirstein is a staff writer at Grist.

Agatha Scaggiante is a U.K.-based journalist and artist. Her work explores a wide range of topics, from local and environmental journalism to digital subcultures and artwork.

 Rachel Knopp is a freelance writer whose reporting includes decarceration and other justice movements.

Trinity Tran, co-founder and lead organizer of the California Public Banking Alliance and Public Bank Los Angeles, is on a mission to transform finance with people and the planet …