Author Bios

Rebecca Talbot is a researcher and writer whose work has appeared in Contrary, South Florida Poetry Journal and other publications. She is also an organizer with Immigrant Action Alliance.

Mariel Padilla is a general assignment reporter. Previously she covered breaking news at The New York Times where she contributed to COVID-19 coverage that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize, compiled …

Taylor Giorno is a money-in-politics reporter at OpenSecrets.

Nick Cleveland-Stout is a research associate in the Democratizing Foreign Policy program at the Quincy Institute. Previously, Nick conducted research on U.S.-Brazil relations as a 2023 Fulbright fellow at …

Allison Altshule is an intern at Solitary Watch and a senior studying government, journalism and statistics at Georgetown University.

Josephine Lee has been published in Salon, The Daily Beast, Common Dreams, Indypendent and The Village Voice.

Joseph Lee is an Aquinnah Wampanoag writer and lives in New York City.

Bella DeVaan is an Inequality.org Next Leader at the Institute for Policy Studies. You can follow her on Twitter at @bdevaan.

Rabbi Elliot Kukla (he/they) is an author and activist who has spent the past 20 years working at the intersection of justice and spiritual care to the dying and …

Jeff Garcia is a special education teacher and union activist in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Born and raised in New York, Jeff comes from a Puerto Rican family and attended …