Author Bios

William Horne is a postdoctoral fellow at Villanova University and co-founder and editor of The Activist History Review. He researches racial capitalism and its relationship to carcerality in the …

Sarah Molinari is an anthropologist and Postdoctoral Research Associate at Florida International University. Her research focuses on the lived experiences of debt and disaster recovery processes in Puerto Rico. She …

Aryn (they/them) is an abortion advocate and storyteller with Advocates for Youth and We Testify. They live in Columbus, Ohio.

The Cyborg Jillian Weise is an activist and maker. Cy founded Borg4Borg Productions with the film A Kim Deal Party. The film manifests demographic parity by casting 34 deaf …

Lameka Smith is the mother of 10 children, one of whom is incarcerated in Swanson Correctional Center for Youth. Since her son was incarcerated in 2017, she has been …

Malak Shalabi works for the organization Americans for Justice in Palestine Action (AJP Action). She has written on torture, occupation and U.S. imperialism in the Middle East. Malak is …

Sravya Tadepalli is a freelance writer based in Oregon. Her writing has been featured in Arlington Magazine, Teaching Tolerance, the Portland Tribune, Oregon Humanities, and the textbook America Now. …

Jimmy Cloutier is a reporting fellow at OpenSecrets. Jimmy joined OpenSecrets in 2022 as the Roy W. Howard Reporting Fellow. He earned his undergraduate degree in English from Virginia Commonwealth University in …

Chris Aadland, Red Lake and Leech Lake Ojibwe, is a reporter for Indian Country Today and Underscore.news. Follow him on Twitter: @cjaadland.