Author Bios

Neesha Powell-Twagirumukiza is a Georgia-born-and-raised movement journalist, essayist, grant writer, cat parent, spouse, and auntie living in Atlanta/occupied Creek territory. Their writing has been published in publications such as …

Braxton Brewington is a community organizer and spokesperson for the Debt Collective.

Corey Mitchell writes about racial, gender and economic inequality in education. Before joining the Center for Public Integrity in 2021, Corey was an associate editor at Education Week, where …

Dr. Mali Collins is a doula and assistant professor of African American literature at Howard University, where she researches contemporary Black literature, the medical humanities, reproductive justice and bioethics. …

Linette Park is a visiting assistant professor in the African American Studies Department at Emory University. She is also the Thurgood Marshall Fellow in Dartmouth College’s African and African …

Reina Sultan is a Lebanese-American Muslim freelance journalist and one of the co-creators of 8 to Abolition. She is a PIC [prison-industrial complex] abolitionist and anarcha-feminist working to dismantle …

Sushma Subramanian is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Mary Washington.

Abby Zimmardi is a summer 2021 Institute for Southern Studies intern who is interested in writing about human rights and reproductive justice. Zimmardi is a 2021 graduate of the …

Bianca Tylek is the Founder and Executive Director of Worth Rises. She is one the nation’s for most experts on the prison industry and a nationally recognized leader in …

Bianca Fortis is an Abrams Reporting Fellow at ProPublica.