Author Bios

Karen Houppert is a Baltimore-based freelance journalist. Her book on indigent defense, published by the New Press in March 2013, coincided with the fiftieth anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright.

Maya Schenwar is director of the Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism. She is also Truthout's board president. She is the co-editor of We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward …