Author Bios

Rachel Scheier is a Bay Area journalist.

Charles Taylor serves as political action chair for the Mississippi NAACP.

Julia Peck is a linguist by training who recently worked at the University of Cambridge developing multilingual curricula to teach cultural literacy to schoolchildren. She is currently a research …

Ansev Demirhan has a Ph.D. in history and is a research fellow for the progressive watchdog organization True North Research.

William Horne is a postdoctoral fellow at Villanova University and co-founder and editor of The Activist History Review. He researches racial capitalism and its relationship to carcerality in the …

Sarah Molinari is an anthropologist and Postdoctoral Research Associate at Florida International University. Her research focuses on the lived experiences of debt and disaster recovery processes in Puerto Rico. She …

Aryn (they/them) is an abortion advocate and storyteller with Advocates for Youth and We Testify. They live in Columbus, Ohio.

The Cyborg Jillian Weise is an activist and maker. Cy founded Borg4Borg Productions with the film A Kim Deal Party. The film manifests demographic parity by casting 34 deaf …

Lameka Smith is the mother of 10 children, one of whom is incarcerated in Swanson Correctional Center for Youth. Since her son was incarcerated in 2017, she has been …