Author Bios

Lou is a freelance journalist focused on gender, sexuality and human rights reporting, and is a contributor to openDemocracy.

Liz Pelly is a music and cul­ture writer based in Brook­lyn, NY.

April Stace is the author of White Knuckle Love: A Memoir of Holding and visiting professor of practical theology at The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church.

Jill A. Fisher, professor of social medicine in the Center for Bioethics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is author of Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and …

Bernard Wolfson, managing editor for California Healthline, served most recently as business editor of the Orange County Register.

Kerry F. Thompson is an associate professor of anthropology and department chair at Northern Arizona University.

Isa Ferrero has studied energy engineering and writes about the environment and climate change. As a human rights activist, he has researched U.S. imperialism and the crisis in Yemen, …

Justin Franz is a contributor at Kaiser Health News.

Hannah Seo is a master's student in New York University's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting program and a fall intern for Environmental Health News.

Elena Bruess is a writer and multimedia journalist covering the intersection of health, environment and human rights.