Author Bios

Lylla Younes is a news apps developer for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network. She was previously a data reporter with New York Public Radio (WNYC) and Gothamist.

Frederick Clayton is a journalist based between Valencia and London. He has written for The Economist, Americas Quarterly, The Daily Telegraph, and others. He is a member of the …

Shawn Smith, M.D., is an assistant professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital, and a Public Voices Fellows …

Stephanie Knezz, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of instruction in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University and a Public Voices Fellows of The OpEd Project.

Claudio Rivera, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and a Public Voices Fellows of The OpEd Project.

Atef Said is an associate professor of sociology at the university of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Revolution Squared: Tahrir, Political Possibilities and Counterrevolution in Egypt (Duke University …

Alexandra Boutri is a freelance journalist and writer. She grew up in France and studied political science at the Sorbonne. She is currently collaborating with C.J. Polychroniou on a …

Tyler Walicek is a freelance writer and journalist in Portland, Oregon.

Anoa Changa is a movement journalist that is deeply influenced by grassroots-led electoral organizing efforts. Anoa hosts the Scalawag Magazine video series “As the South Votes" and "The Way …

Kassandra Frederique is the executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, a national nonprofit that works to end the war on drugs.