Author Bios

EJ is 6 years old and lives in New York. She is inspired by the book Missing Daddy by Mariame Kaba.

Aliza Cohen is a research associate at Drug Policy Alliance, a national organization that works to end the drug war.

Gowri Ramachandran serves as senior counsel in the Brennan Center’s Democracy program. Her work focuses on election security, election administration, and combatting election disinformation.

Neesha Powell-Twagirumukiza is a Georgia-born-and-raised movement journalist, essayist, grant writer, cat parent, spouse, and auntie living in Atlanta/occupied Creek territory. Their writing has been published in publications such as …

Braxton Brewington is a community organizer and spokesperson for the Debt Collective.

Corey Mitchell writes about racial, gender and economic inequality in education. Before joining the Center for Public Integrity in 2021, Corey was an associate editor at Education Week, where …

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.