Author Bios

Dan Schwartz is an independent journalist based in Colorado.

Edwin Rubis is a cannabis prisoner serving a 40-year sentence in federal prison for a nonviolent marijuana crime. His release date is 2031. Here's how you can help Edwin. …

William Kleinknecht is a longtime newspaper reporter who covered politics, government, criminal justice, and the environment for the Detroit Free Press, New York Daily News, and Newark Star-Ledger. The …

Harshawn Ratanpal is a contributor at OpenSecrets.

Tim Krüger is a freelance journalist who specializes in researching the political and social transformation processes in Kurdistan and the Middle East. In order to report on the ongoing …

Spencer Beswick is a Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University who writes about the history of anarchism and the left. He blogs at https://emptyhandshistory.com and can be found on Twitter …

Elena Gormley is a social worker, writer and designer in Chicago. By day she works in development and communications in workforce development and reentry, and by night she gets …

Alex Aldridge is an activist, abolitionist and writer who traded their desert living in Tucson, Arizona, for the gloomy skies of Portland, Oregon.

Amira Jarmakani, she/they, is Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and affiliated faculty with the Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies and LGBTQ+ studies at San Diego State …