Truthout
Author Bios

Mary Kay Henry
Mary Kay Henry is president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

Karissa Lewis
Karissa Lewis is national field director of Movement for Black Lives and executive director of the Center for Third World Organizing.

Woojin Lim
Woojin Lim is a philosophy and government student at Harvard University. He is editor-in-chief of The Harvard Review of Philosophy, which published a 2019 issue on “Philosophy and Race.”

Kirk “Jae” James
Dr. Kirk “Jae” James is a social worker and a clinical professor at NYU Silver. He is formerly incarcerated and has dedicated his life to creating liberatory spaces to …

Cameron Rasmussen
Cameron Rasmussen is a social worker, educator and facilitator. He works at the Center for Justice at Columbia University, teaches at Columbia School of Social Work, is a Ph.D. …

Zamone Perez
Zamone Perez is a journalism intern with Center for Responsive Politics.

Vanessa Forti
Vanessa Forti is Programme Associate at UNU-Vie-SCYCLE., United Nations University.

Rahsaan Mahadeo
Rahsaan Mahadeo is a postdoctoral fellow and unauthorized activist-in-residence in the Department of Sociology at Georgetown University.

Ann Marie Coviello
Ann Marie Coviello is an English teacher and school librarian in New Orleans, Louisiana. She joined Teach For America in 1991 and is one of the few alumni from …

Rosemary Cade
Rosemary Cade is a member of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression's Campaign to Free Incarcerated Survivors of Police Torture (CFIST) and a member of Mamas Activating Movements …