Author Bios

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.

Spencer Garcia is a freelance writer based in New York City. They are the founder of Lacunae, the first undergraduate Queer of Color Critique journal in the United States. They write …

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes is the water equity and ocean program manager for GreenLatinos, a national organization that convenes an active comunidad of Latinx environmental and conservation champions, …

Yvette Arellano is a GreenLatinos board member and director of Fenceline Watch, a Houston-based environmental justice organization dedicated to eradicating toxic multigenerational harm from oil, gas, and petrochemical facilities.

Marc has been a member of San Francisco’s hotel, restaurant and culinary workers union, UNITE HERE Local 2, since 1976. He is also a member of the Industrial Workers …

Lucy El-Sherif is a PhD candidate at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

Brett Bachman is the Nights/Weekend Editor at Salon.

Claudia Boyd-Barrett is a contributor at California Health Report.