Author Bios

Carl Sheperis is Professor of Mental Health Counseling at Texas A&M-San Antonio.

Donna Sheperis is Professor of Counseling at Palo Alto Universit.

Tamar Sarai Davis is the criminal justice staff reporter at Prism. Follow her on Twitter @bytamarsarai.

David E. Kirkland (he/him/his) is a professor of urban education at New York University, where he also serves as executive director of NYU Metro Center. Kirkland can be reached …

Nse Ufot is the executive director of the New Georgia Project and a member of the Black Southern Women’s Collective, a cohort of Black women executive directors who have …

Anna Romina Guevarra is the founding director and professor of Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago and a former Public Voices fellow of the OpEd Project. …

René Kladzyk is a contributor at El Paso Matters.

Puya Gerami is the campaign director at Recovery for All.

Amy Souers Kober is the vice president of communications for American Rivers.

Taylor Blackston is a Black queer abolitionist organizer and survivor of sexual violence.