Author Bios

Toya Fick is the executive director of Stand for Children in Oregon, a nonprofit education advocacy organization focused on ensuring all students receive a high-quality and relevant education. She’s …

Gareth Dale teaches politics at Brunel University. His essays have appeared in The Ecologist, The Conversation, Truthout, Open Democracy, Jacobin and Spectre. Twitter: @Gareth_Dale.

Pamela Haines is a writer, workshop leader and speaker with a common theme of demystifying the connections between economics and daily life, while challenging people to claim their power …

Kya Chen is a student and Dissenters organizer attending University of California, Berkeley. Originally from Los Angeles, she organizes with groups like LA Tenants Union for the abolition of …

Ngakiya Camara is a freelance journalist and recent graduate of American University. An arts-activist, her work and research centers Black healing in mobilization, African independence movements, global Indigeneity and …

Candice Norwood is a breaking news reporter. Before The 19th, she was a digital politics reporter for the PBS NewsHour, a staff writer for Governing magazine covering state and …

Heather Franklin is a campaign manager at Free Press.

Carmin is a revolutionary socialist from New York. He is currently living in Buenos Aires.

Richard Arlin Walker, Mexican/Yaqui, lives in the Samish homeland of Anacortes, Washington, about 80 miles northwest of Seattle.

Yumna Moosa is a PhD candidate at the Africa Health Research Institute.