Author Bios

Trinity Tran, co-founder and lead organizer of the California Public Banking Alliance and Public Bank Los Angeles, is on a mission to transform finance with people and the planet …

Griffin Ritze is a tug driver at the Amazon air hub in Northern Kentucky.

Miles Hamberg is a freelance writer and researcher interested in the labor movement, climate change and telling stories that are typically overlooked in the media.

David J. Harris is the retired managing director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School.

Terri Friedline writes, organizes and teaches about racial capitalism, technology and the financial system. She is a professor of social work at the University of Michigan and is the …

Joseph Winters is a reporter at Grist.

Eleanor Klibanoff is a women’s health reporter, based in Austin, where she covers abortion, maternal health care, gender-based violence and LGBTQ issues, among other topics. She was previously with the …

Tom Conway is the international president of the United Steelworkers Union (USW).

Nitakuwa Barrett Orsak is a community health program manager and nurse at the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, and a Public Voices fellow of The OpEd …

Makaelah is a writer for Facing South, an online magazine published by the Institute for Southern Studies. She is the institute's 2022 Julian Bond Fellow. Previously, she was a …