Author Bios

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 …

Monica Ramsy (she/they) is a sociology Ph.D. student at the University of California, Los Angeles and Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Research Scholar. Her research interests focus on the sociology of …

Sarah Frieman is a fourth-year Anthropology major at The George Washington University. She has been a coordinating committee member with Jewish Voice for Peace GW since 2020.

Taylor Fox is a second-year student at UC Berkeley Law School and member of Law Students for Justice in Palestine.