Author Bios

Dr. Mali Collins is a doula and assistant professor of African American literature at Howard University, where she researches contemporary Black literature, the medical humanities, reproductive justice and bioethics. …

Linette Park is a visiting assistant professor in the African American Studies Department at Emory University. She is also the Thurgood Marshall Fellow in Dartmouth College’s African and African …

Reina Sultan is a Lebanese-American Muslim freelance journalist and one of the co-creators of 8 to Abolition. She is a PIC [prison-industrial complex] abolitionist and anarcha-feminist working to dismantle …

Sushma Subramanian is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Mary Washington.

Abby Zimmardi is a summer 2021 Institute for Southern Studies intern who is interested in writing about human rights and reproductive justice. Zimmardi is a 2021 graduate of the …

Bianca Tylek is the Founder and Executive Director of Worth Rises. She is one the nation’s for most experts on the prison industry and a nationally recognized leader in …

Bianca Fortis is an Abrams Reporting Fellow at ProPublica.

Vasudha Desikan is the political director at the Action Center on Race & the Economy (ACRE). Vasudha comes from a long history of campaigning in the labor movement, mostly …

Ryan M. Moser is a recovering addict from Philly serving time in the Florida Department of Corrections for property crimes. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the …

Jeremy Kohler is a St. Louis-based reporter covering issues in Missouri and the Midwest. He came to ProPublica in January 2021 from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he worked …