Author Bios

Regina Chichizola is the co-director of Save California Salmon and a resident of the Klamath River.

Barat Dickman is a board member of College & Community Fellowship, a nonprofit that helps women and families most harmed by mass criminalization gain equitable access to opportunity and …

Jeff Nesbit is the author of Poison Tea, which exposed for the first time the close ties between the tobacco industry and Koch donor network front groups. He once helped …

Professor Alfred de Zayas is the former United Nations independent expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order from 2012-18 and the author of Building a …

Amanda Becker is a Washington correspondent for The 19th. She has covered the U.S. Congress, the White House and elections for more than a decade. Becker previously worked at …

Hennessy Garcia (She/They) is an Afro-Indigenous and Latinx nonbinary femme. She is a student studying Environmental Science and Data Analytics. She is an activist, abolitionist and a member of …

Christine Pardue is a writer and member of NYC for Abortion Rights.

Renaldo Hudson spent 13 years on death row in Illinois, and another 17 serving life without the possibility of parole, before his sentence was commuted a second time to …

Eli Hager is a reporter covering issues affecting children and teens in the Southwest.

Allison Riggs is co-executive director and chief counsel for voting rights at the Southern Coalition for Social Justice. Riggs has argued multiple consequential redistricting cases at the U.S. Supreme …