Author Bios

Cindy Eigler is a co-executive director at the Chicago Torture Justice Center, nationally recognized for her role in building local movements to end mass criminalization and improve the daily …

Marcy Winograd chairs Jewish & Allied Educators 4 Palestine, a caucus within the 330,000 member California Teachers Association. She serves on the California legislative team for Jewish Voice for Peace-Action, and …

Dylan Rodríguez is a professor in the Department of Black Study and the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside, where he co-directs the Center for Ideas …

Jonathan Entin is Professor Emeritus of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Case Western Reserve University.

Vincent Schiraldi is the Co-director of the Columbia University Justice Lab.

Marian K. Schneider is an Advisor for the Voting Rights and Elections Program at the Brennan Center for Justice.

Esther Hernández was born in Puerto Rico and moved to Chicago at the age of nine. After 25 years of service as a nurse assistant with Illinois Masonic Hospital across …

Jarrod Shanahan is the author of Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage (Verso, 2022); coauthor of States of Incarceration (Field Notes, 2022), City Time (NYU Press, …

Zhandarka Kurti is an assistant professor of criminal justice and criminology at Loyola University, Chicago.

Andrew McCormick is an independent journalist in Washington, D.C. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation and Columbia Journalism Review, among other publications. …