Author Bios

James Haslam is a senior fellow at Race Forward helping lead the H.E.A.L. Together initiative and is the founding executive director at Rights & Democracy.

Kirk Swearingen is a poet and independent journalist. He is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism, and his work has appeared in Delmar, MARGIE, Bloom, the American …

Militant journalism, revolutionary politics.

Sakshi Udavant is a freelance journalist and content writer with an academic background in psychology. She covers social issues, technology, mental health and well-being for titles like Business Insider, …

Nuria Sheehan is a writer, teacher and digital strategist living in Chicago. You can read more of her writing at nuria.online.

Lisa R. Jackson is a professor of psychology at Schoolcraft College, commissioner at Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and chair of Ann Arbor’s Independent Community Police Oversight Commission. …

Katie Finnigan is a writer, social scientist and member of New York City for Abortion Rights.

Rev. Ciera Bates-Chamberlain is executive director of LIVE FREE Illinois.

Pastor Michael McBride is national executive director of LIVE FREE, which organizes communities directly impacted by gun violence and mass incarceration in order to build the necessary power and …

Zachary Levenson is an assistant professor of sociology at Florida International University and senior research associate at the University of Johannesburg. He is the author of Delivery as Dispossession: …