Author Bios

Ron Patenaude is president of United Auto Workers Local 2322 in western Massachusetts, which represents close to 4,000 workers in higher and early education and human services.

Abby Quillen is a freelance writer in Eugene, Ore. She blogs at newurbanhabitat.com.

Geneviève Lavoie-Mathieu is a freelance writer based in Rome. Follow her on Twitter @GLavoieMathieu.  

Andrew Cohen is a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. He is also a contributing editor at The Atlantic, legal analyst for 60 Minutes, and chief analyst and …

Gary Cohn is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has worked for the Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun and Wall Street Journal.

Shir Hever is an economic researcher of the economic aspects of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, and published numerous reports and studies on the topic, especially for …

Don Rojas is the director of communications for The Institute of the Black World 21st Century. He was a former executive editor of The New York Amsterdam News and the …

Samantha Cook is a reporter at Remapping Debate. She graduated from New York University in 2012 with a B.A. with a major in journalism and sociology and a minor …

Andrew Fogle is a contributor to Jacobin Magazine.

Imani Altemus-Williams is a recent graduate of the New School. She has been active in Occupy Wall Street and works with undocumented and indigenous activism, anti-mass-incarceration organizing and popular …