Author Bios

Colleen Teubner is a student at the George Washington University and an intern for OtherWords at the Institute for Policy Studies.

Jennifer Hollie Bowles' writing has been accepted for publication in numerous and varied venues, including The Allegiant, The New York Quarterly, DigBoston, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, and Gutter Eloquence Magazine. …

John Rickford is a professor of Linguistics at Stanford and the author of about 100 articles and author/editor of twelve books, including Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English …

Jean Trounstine is an author and editor of six published books and many articles, professor at Middlesex Community College in Massachusetts and a prison activist. For 10 years, she …

Arkan Akin is a political theory student and political activist.

Poorni Priya Jaganathan is currently training to be a doctor and has an avid interest in current affairs.

Julie Bessler is a lifelong student working towards her BA in International Affairs at the George Washington University. Active in the production aspects of her university's non-partisan political debate …

Makani Themba is Executive Director of The Praxis Project.

Nicholas C. Arguimbau is an environmental and death penalty lawyer who has come home to rural Massachusetts after 34 years in California.