Author Bios

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, …

Alyssa Curcio is a law student and reproductive justice activist in New York City.

Lizzie Chadbourne is a multiply disabled public health researcher studying the impacts of minority stress and stigma on the health of LGBTQ people and their relationships. She also writes …