Author Bios

Sushma Subramanian is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Mary Washington.

Abby Zimmardi is a summer 2021 Institute for Southern Studies intern who is interested in writing about human rights and reproductive justice. Zimmardi is a 2021 graduate of the …

Bianca is the Founder and Executive Director of Worth Rises.

Bianca Fortis is an Abrams Reporting Fellow at ProPublica.

Vasudha Desikan is the political director at the Action Center on Race & the Economy (ACRE). Vasudha comes from a long history of campaigning in the labor movement, mostly …

Ryan M. Moser is a recovering addict from Philly serving time in the Florida Department of Corrections for property crimes. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the …

Jeremy Kohler is a St. Louis-based reporter covering issues in Missouri and the Midwest. He came to ProPublica in January 2021 from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he worked …

Jena Brooker is a freelance journalist based in Detroit. She writes about the environment and intersections of race and inequality. She is the Midwest Fellow for Grist. Follow Jena …

Cuban-born scholar and writer Odette Casamayor-Cisneros is associate professor of Latin American cultural studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Centered on Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx experiences, her current academic, …

Kristina M. Lee is a Ph.D. candidate in rhetoric at Colorado State University.