Author Bios

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. …

Jason Koslowski is a contingent college teacher and union organizer who lives in Philadelphia.

Treva B. Lindsey is an associate professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Follow her on Twitter: @divafeminist.

Amna A. Akbar is an associate professor at The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law, in Columbus, Ohio. Follow them on Twitter: @orangebegum.

Michael Wilson Becerril, Ph.D. (@mwilsonbecerril) is the author of Resisting Extractivism: Peruvian Gold, Everyday Violence, and the Politics of Attention (Vanderbilt University Press, 2021), a scholar-in-residence at the Latino …

Nina Burleigh is a journalist of U.S. politics and the author of six previous books. Her seventh, Virus: Vaccinations, the CDC, and the Hijacking of America’s Response to the …