Author Bios

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. 

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 …