Author Bios

Ariana Figueroa covers the nation's capital for States Newsroom. Her areas of coverage include politics and policy, lobbying, elections and campaign finance.

Worth Rises is a nonprofit organization dedicated to dismantling the prison industry and ending its exploitation of incarcerated people and their families. Through narrative change, policy advocacy, and corporate …

A. Mansour is the pen name of a writer in Gaza.

Myriam-Fernanda Alcala Delgado is a contributor at Capital & Main.

Mark Griffiths is reader in political geography at Newcastle University. He is coeditor of Encountering Palestine: Un/making Spaces of Colonial Violence from University of Nebraska Press.

Umayyah Cable is assistant professor of American culture and film, television, and media at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Dr. Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian is a mycologist, educator, and writer. She is the author of Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature.

Anagha Subhash Nair is a multimedia journalist based between Lebanon and Syria. She has reported out of the region for Foreign Policy, New Lines Magazine, Anadolu Agency, and others.

Sarah Michal Hamid is a student midwife at the National College of Midwifery, a “We Testify” abortion storyteller, and a full-spectrum doula. She is a 2025 recipient of the …

Keerti Gopal covers intersections between climate change, public health and environmental justice at Inside Climate News.