Author Bios

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 …

Sharone Mitchell Jr. is the director of the Illinois Justice Project. He was formerly a Cook County public defender.

Kevin Cool is a writer for California Healthline.

Hiba Ansar is a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at the Ohio State University studying the politics of reproduction and the intersections of colonialism and health.