Author Bios

Jeremy B. Merrill is a former news apps developer at ProPublica concentrating mostly on congressional data and ProPublica's Represent app.

Victoria Theisen Homer is the author of Learning to Connect: Relationships, Race, and Teacher Education.

King Downing is a journalist and radio host.

Anna Lappé is a writer for Earth Island Journal.

Aaricka Washington is a national education reporting intern who holds a B.A. in journalism from Indiana University and an M.S. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

Andrej Grubačić is an anarchist dissident, historian, and author of Don’t Mourn, Balkanize!: Essays After Yugoslavia, and Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History.

Tiffani Milless, M.D., is a board-certified pathologist based in Des Moines, Iowa.

Rimsha Syed (she/her) is a Houston-based Pakistani Muslim daughter of fierce immigrants. Rimsha is a freelance journalist, community organizer and creative who hopes to disrupt imperial-influenced media and rewrite history …

Kenny Stancil is a staff writer for Common Dreams.

Kristina is a political scientist, journalist and filmmaker. She holds an M.A. in political science, criminology, penal and international public law from University of Freiburg, and a Ph.D. in …