Author Bios

Joseph Llobrera is the director of research and interim program area lead for the Food Assistance team at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Eli Cahan is a contributing writer for Kaiser Health News.

Ben Clements is a former federal prosecutor, former chief legal counsel to the governor of Massachusetts and chair of Free Speech For People, a national nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that …

Ahmed Rabbani is a taxi driver from Karachi currently being held at Guantánamo. He has been imprisoned without charge or trial by the U.S. for 19 years, and is …

Sofya Aptekar is a writer for openDemocracy.

Matt Volz is the Mountain States Editor at KFF Health News.

Alyce McFadden is a journalism intern at Center for Responsive Politics. Alyce graduated from Bowdoin College in May 2020 with a degree in government and legal studies. Before joining …

Phela Townsend is a policy entrepreneur at Next100, a startup think tank, and a Ph.D. candidate at the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations, where she focuses on …

Omar Ocampo is a researcher for the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts Boston with …

Keeley Schenwar was a mother and an advocate for incarcerated women. She spoke out about the injustices of prisons and the cruel treatment of incarcerated mothers. Keeley died on …