Author Bios

Talya Wintman is a master of social work candidate at New York University’s Silver School of Social Work and a member of Payment for Placements.

Philip Weiss is a journalist and co-editor of Mondoweiss.

Dima Khalidi is a Palestinian born in Beirut and raised in the U.S. She’s the founder and director of Palestine Legal, a non-profit legal and advocacy organization working to …

Elayne Clift is a writer in Saxtons River, Vermont.

Lea Kayali is a Palestinian community activist, writer and digital organizer. She is interested in government surveillance of activists, political advocacy for Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian …

Maha Nassar is an associate professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona.

Lana Tatour is a writer for Mondoweiss.

Dennis O’Neil is legislative and political director of the retiree section of the New York Metro Postal Workers Union. A cross-union group of rank-and-file postal organizers can be reached …

Jenny Deam is a ProPublica reporter covering health care.

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 …