Author Bios

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 …

Jena Brooker is a freelance journalist based in Detroit. She writes about the environment and intersections of race and inequality. She is the Midwest Fellow for Grist. Follow Jena …

Cuban-born scholar and writer Odette Casamayor-Cisneros is associate professor of Latin American cultural studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Centered on Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx experiences, her current academic, …

Kristina M. Lee is a Ph.D. candidate in rhetoric at Colorado State University.

Jessica Agbemavor is a 2021 summer intern at the Institute for Southern Studies and a rising senior at UNC Greensboro studying political science. She enjoys researching and writing about …

Evan Urquhart is a freelance writer with a focus on the transgender community.

Tara Romano is the executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina.

Kia Guarino is the executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Washington.

Priscilla Robinson is an organizer with Justice is Global, a project of People’s Action to win a more just and sustainable global economy and defeat rightwing nationalism. 

Clarissa Rojas Durazo grew up in the border cities Mexicali, Baja California and Calexico, California. She teaches Chicanx Studies and is affiliated with Cultural Studies and Gender Studies at …