Author Bios

Priyanka Bhatt is a senior staff attorney at Project South where she focuses on immigration detention, local police collusion with ICE and anti-immigrant state policies.

Aija Nemer-Aanerud is the lead Health Care for All organizer at People’s Action.

Angela Mooney D'Arcy (Acjachemen) is the executive director and founder of Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples, a grassroots, California Indigenous-led environmental justice organization dedicated to building the capacity …

Wendy Dowe is a survivor of Irwin County Detention Center and a human rights advocate.

Dany Sigwalt is executive director of Power Shift Network, a 2021 Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity and a native of Washington, D.C. Dany cut her organizing teeth providing solidarity …

Henry Messenger is a writer incarcerated at Great Meadow Correctional Facility in New York, serving a five-year sentence for larceny. He has dedicated himself to self-education, and has written …

Orion Rummler is a reporter for the breaking news team at The 19th. He previously anchored live news coverage at Axios, including the January 6 Capitol attack, the coronavirus …

Andrea Seielstad is a professor of law at the University of Dayton.

Richard K. Zimmerman is Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh.

Mark S Roberts is Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of Pittsburgh.