Author Bios

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 …

Ivana Nikolić Hughes is president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and senior lecturer in chemistry at Columbia University.

Sudip Bhattacharya is a doctoral candidate in political science at Rutgers University. He also has a background as a reporter, having gotten his Master's in journalism at Georgetown University. You …

Maryam Saleh is an investigative editor for Reveal. Previously, she worked at The Intercept, where she most recently edited stories about immigration, criminal justice and international human rights. She …