Author Bios

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.

Gerard N. Magliocca is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law at IUPUI.

Michael Schulson is a contributing editor for Undark. His work has also been published by Aeon, NPR, Pacific Standard, Scientific American, Slate, and Wired, among other publications.

Meg O'Connor is a writer for The Appeal.

Lydia Pelot-Hobbs is an assistant professor of geography and African American & Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and …