Author Bios

Kathy Egland founded Mississippi’s Education, Economics, Environmental, Climate, and Health Organization. She chairs the Environmental and Climate Justice Committee of the NAACP.

Tatev Hovhannisyan is openDemocracy's Europe and Eurasia editor on their Tracking the Backlash project. She worked for 10 years at leading Armenian media outlets, six of them as an …

Sara Herschander is a freelance journalist and audio producer based in New York City. Her work has appeared in The American Prospect, Documented NY and Univision, among other publications.

Jeff Melnick is professor of American Studies at UMass Boston where he serves as vice president of the Faculty Staff Union. His most recent book is on the cultural …

Ben G. Price is a community rights organizer for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), and the author of How Wealth Rules the World: Saving Our Communities and Freedoms …

Aly Shaw is a contributor at Eyes on the Ties.

John Teufel is a lawyer and freelance writer with a monthly column at The Indypendent. Follow him on Twitter: @JohnTeufelNYC.

Matthew Miles Goodrich is a writer and organizer. He serves as the fundraising director of the Sunrise Movement.

Claudia E. Muñoz-Castellano is the co-executive director of Grassroots Leadership, an organization dedicated to ending mass incarceration, deportation, criminalization and prison profiteering. Born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico, Claudia …

Angela Bunay is the managing editor of the Cornell Daily Sun and an intern at Labor Notes.