Author Bios

Bethania Palma Markus is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist.

Sarahjane Blum is a small business owner and an animal rights activist. She lives in Minneapolis.  

Kara Brandeisky is a reporting intern at ProPublica. She previously interned at NPR, Slate, Congressional Quarterly, The New Yorker Washington bureau and The New Republic. She graduated from Georgetown …

Brad Parker is an attorney and international advocacy officer with Defence for Children International Palestine, an independent child-rights organization dedicated to defending and promoting the rights of children living …

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 …