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Amna A. Akbar

Amna A. Akbar is an associate professor at The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law, in Columbus, Ohio. Follow them on Twitter: @orangebegum.
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Michael Wilson Becerril

Michael Wilson Becerril, Ph.D. (@mwilsonbecerril) is the author of Resisting Extractivism: Peruvian Gold, Everyday Violence, and the Politics of Attention (Vanderbilt University Press, 2021), a scholar-in-residence at the Latino …
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Nina Burleigh

Nina Burleigh is a journalist of U.S. politics and the author of six previous books. Her seventh, Virus: Vaccinations, the CDC, and the Hijacking of America’s Response to the …
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Adryan Corcione

Adryan Corcione is a freelance journalist. Their work often covers drugs and policing.
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Jonathan Sharp

Jonathan Sharp presently serves as CFO at Environmental Litigation Group P.C. The law firm established in Birmingham, Alabama, specializes in toxic exposure cases and helps individuals injured by toxic substances …
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Rachel Carle

Rachel Carle is a master in public policy candidate at Harvard Kennedy School studying human rights and global institutions.
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Isobel Whitcomb

Isobel Whitcomb is a science reporter based in the Pacific Northwest. Her work covering healthcare and ecology has appeared in Bay Nature Magazine, Hakai, and Atlas Obscura.
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Anne Petermann

Anne Petermann is the executive director of Global Justice Ecology Project. She has been working on issues related to protecting forests and defending the rights of Indigenous peoples since …
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Adam Mahoney

Adam Mahoney is the climate and environment reporter at Capital B.