Author Bios

Carly Berlin is Southerly’s Gulf Coast correspondent. 

Katelyn Ringrose, Notre Dame Law class of 2019, is a tech policy attorney in Washington, D.C., where she works on issues related to data privacy, diversity and inclusion.

Lindsay Beyerstein is an investigative journalist, filmmaker and broadcaster in Brooklyn, New York. She she is the lead writer at the Sidney Hillman Foundation. Her reporting has appeared in …

Tabitha Bonilla is an assistant professor in human development, social policy and faculty fellow in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, and a Public Voices fellow through …

Eliana Miller is a journalism intern at the Center for Responsive Politics. Eliana is a recent graduate of Bowdoin College, where she majored in Hispanic studies and was the …

David Renton is a barrister and professor. His most recent book, Against the Law: Why Justice Requires Fewer Laws and a Smaller State, was published by Penguin in July …

Sharon Lavigne is the founder and president of RISE St. James, a grassroots faith-based organization dedicated to opposing the siting of new petrochemical facilities in the area out of …

Mukund Rathi is a radical lawyer and technologist. Follow him on Twitter: @heylockthatdoor.

Ryan Gabrielson is a reporter for ProPublica covering the U.S. criminal legal system. In 2013, his stories for the Center for Investigative Reporting on violent crimes at California’s board-and-care …

Matt Vasilogambrosis a staff writer at Stateline.