Author Bios

Gay Semel is a retired union-side labor lawyer. She was District Counsel to District 1 of the Communications Workers in New York for more than 30 years. She also …

Nicole Santa Cruz is a reporter at ProPublica covering issues of inequality in the Southwest.

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.