Author Bios

Steven Gorelick is the managing programs director of Local Futures. He is the author of Small is Beautiful, Big is Subsidized, coauthor of Bringing the Food Economy Home, and …

Jessica Kutz is the gender, climate and sustainability reporter at The 19th. Prior to joining The 19th, she was an editor and reporter at High Country News, a regional …

Ariana Afshar is a contributor at Truthout.

Kate Wells is a Peabody Award-winning journalist currently covering public health and the COVID-19 pandemic. She is also the co-host of the Michigan Radio and NPR podcast Believed. 

Jaime Taylor has worked as a librarian in the public and private spheres for over a decade. Her professional interests include the racialized and gendered nature of librarianship, rethinking …

Katherine Huggins is a contributor to OpenSecrets.

Stephanie Hingtgen is a Research Analyst with the Federal Fiscal and Income and Poverty Trends teams at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Justin L. Brooks is a lawyer and a Ph.D. student in Government and African and African-American Studies at Harvard University.

Hayley Brown is a research associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

Analilia Mejia is co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy Action (CPDA), an organization that works to create equity, opportunity and a dynamic democracy in partnership with high-impact, …