Author Bios

Kathleen Robin Joyce is a student at Georgetown University and an OtherWords intern at the Institute for Policy Studies.

Richard Wembe Johnson is a plaintiff in the Center for Constitutional Rights lawsuit challenging long-term solitary confinement.

Ted Dreier is a retired teacher. He has written for Truthout and the BR, a branch of German Public Radio. Contact him at [email protected].

Lamont Lilly is an independent journalist, Black radical activist, poet and community organizer based in Durham, North Carolina. In 2016, he was the Workers World Party U.S. vice-presidential candidate. …

Harriet Rowan is a CMD reporter. She majored in Latin American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and also extensively studied the Middle East. She speaks Spanish and Arabic and …

David Dougherty is a producer for The Real News Network.

Gabriel Reyes is a prisoner at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison and a plaintiff in a 

Todd Lewis Ashker, 52, spent his teenage years ‘in and out of juvenile facilities’ for various nonviolent infractions, and was imprisoned for burglary at the age of 18. In …

Kietryn Zychal is a freelance journalist from Pennsylvania. She came to Nebraska to continue investigating the case of Ed Poindexter and David Rice.

 Martha Esquivel is the sister of Luis Esquivel, plaintiff in the Center for Constitutional Rights lawsuit challenging long-term solitary confinement tells how confinement deprived her brother of any relationship …