Author Bios

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.

Matthew Yasuoka is a Chicago area justice worker and lawyer.

Therese Quinn is a professor and the director of Museum and Exhibition Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago and is the vice president of her union, the UIC …

Jose Luis Benavides is a queer and Latinx artist, writer and lecturer at Wilbur Wright City Colleges of Chicago.