Author Bios

Gary Therkildsen is a fiscal policy analyst at OMB Watch. Gary D. Bass is the executive director of OMB Watch.

Gary D. Bass is an affiliated professor at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy and founder of OMB Watch.

Victoria Law is a freelance journalist who focuses on incarceration, gender and resistance. Her books include Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (2009), Prison by Any Other …

Darrin McMahon is a professor of history at Florida State University and the author of Happiness, A History.

Alison Bethel McKenzie is Director of the International Press Institute (IPI).

Steven M. Ellis is the Press Freedom Advisor with the International Pres Institute (IPI).