Author Bios

Mickey Zacchilli lives in Providence, RI and was born in 1983.

Thomas A. Dutton is an architect and professor of architecture and interior design at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. In January 2009, he was awarded the Cincinnati Professor of Community …

J. Wells Dixon is a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he specializes in challenging unlawful detentions at the Guantánamo prison. Wells represents clients in …

Elizabeth Jensen is a contributor to The New York Times.

Matt Bai is staff writer and chief political correspondent for the New York Times Magazine, where he covered both the 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns. He also writes the …

Patrick R. McElligott is an activist and author from New York.

Melissa V. Harris-Perry is professor of political science at Tulane University, where she is founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Project on Gender, Race and Politics in the South. She previously …

James Marc Leas is a patent lawyer in South Burlington Vermont. He has a Bachelor’s in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master’s in physics from …