Author Bios

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.

Andrea Halland is a writer for Kaiser Health News.

Adnan Ahmed is a community psychiatrist in Minneapolis.

Alys Samson Estapé is a sociologist, feminist, anti-racist activist and currently the European coordinator of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions in Israel (BDS) movement.

Julia Forrest is a reporting intern at OpenSecrets.

Denise Lieberman is a St. Louis lawyer and community activist who specializes in civil liberties, civil rights and constitutional law. She currently serves as a staff attorney and Missouri …

Destiny Harris is a Black, queer abolitionist organizer, writer, poet, artist and student at Howard University. She is from the West Side of Chicago and currently based and organizing …

Verónica Zaragovia is a contributor at WLRN.