Author Bios

Hatem Abudayyeh is the executive director of the Chicagoland-based Arab American Action Network (AAAN) and the volunteer national chair of the U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)

Don Leonard is Assistant Professor of Practice in City and Regional Planning at the Ohio State University.

Jeffrey Kucik is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Arizona.

Neil Bedi reports on the federal government for ProPublica in Washington, D.C.

Dorothy Rau is an independent journalist, writer and editor based in Istanbul, covering LGBTQ+ and gender-based politics. Previously, she was a Fulbright Scholar in Ankara. Dorothy has a B.A. …

Ana Malinow, MD, is past president of Physicians for a National Health Program and lead organizer for National Single Payer (@nsphealthcare).

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 …