Author Bios

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. 

Carina Dominguez, Pascua Yaqui, is a correspondent and producer for Indian Country Today. Previously she worked for CBS Television Network. Carina’s work has appeared in news outlets like The …

Martina Burtscher is a caseworker on Reprieve’s “Life After Guantánamo” project. She studied Arabic and Persian in the Middle East and France. She holds masters’ degrees in political science …

Colleen Wessel-McCoy is author of Freedom Church of the Poor: Martin Luther King Jr’s Poor People’s Campaign (Lexington, 2021), and a Neely Visiting Professor of Religion and Public Policy …

Emily Hopkins is an Abrams Reporting Fellow at ProPublica.Before joining ProPublica, Hopkins was an investigative reporter for The Indianapolis Star. In 2020, their work exposed deep flaws in Indiana’s …

Alexandra Martinez is the senior news reporter at Prism. She is a Cuban-American writer based in Miami, Florida, with an interest in immigration, the economy, gender justice and the …

Alec Connon is the coordinator of the Stop the Money Pipeline coalition, a coalition of over 200 organizations working to stop the flow of money from Wall Street to …

Mustafa Ali-Smith is a social justice advocate who has worked around criminal justice issues for several years. You can reach Mustafa by visiting his website at www.mustafaalismith.com. He tweets at @MustafaAliSmith.

Colin Barker is co-editor, along with Gareth Dale and Neil Davidson, of Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age. He lectured for many years at Manchester Metropolitan University. He co-organized …