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Alyce McFadden
Alyce McFadden is a journalism intern at Center for Responsive Politics. Alyce graduated from Bowdoin College in May 2020 with a degree in government and legal studies. Before joining …

Phela Townsend
Phela Townsend is a policy entrepreneur at Next100, a startup think tank, and a Ph.D. candidate at the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations, where she focuses on …

Omar Ocampo
Omar Ocampo is a researcher for the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts Boston with …

Keeley Schenwar
Keeley Schenwar was a mother and an advocate for incarcerated women. She spoke out about the injustices of prisons and the cruel treatment of incarcerated mothers. Keeley died on …

Sharone Mitchell Jr.
Sharone Mitchell Jr. is the director of the Illinois Justice Project. He was formerly a Cook County public defender.

Kevin Cool
Kevin Cool is a writer for California Healthline.

Hiba Ansar
Hiba Ansar is a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at the Ohio State University studying the politics of reproduction and the intersections of colonialism and health.

Gerard Magliocca
Gerard N. Magliocca is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law at IUPUI.

Michael Schulson
Michael Schulson is a contributing editor for Undark. His work has also been published by Aeon, NPR, Pacific Standard, Scientific American, Slate, and Wired, among other publications.

Meg O’Connor
Meg O'Connor is a writer for The Appeal.