Author Bios

Neal Morton is the Western education reporter for The Hechinger Report, covering 10 states in the West: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.

Robert Lewis is a contributor to Kaiser Health News.

Taylor Johnston is a fellow at the Center for Public Integrity.

Jamie Smith Hopkins is a deputy editor and senior reporter for the Center for Public Integrity.

Elizabeth Hawes is an award-winning prison writer and former editor of Reflector, the prison news magazine at Minnesota Correctional Institution (MCI)-Shakopee, where Hawes is incarcerated. She is a winner …

Tish O'Dell is the Ohio community organizer for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.

Michael Lynn is a Chicago-based writer and activist serving on the national board of Peace Action, the nation’s largest grassroots peace and justice organization headquartered in the Bay Area …

Tara Straw is a senior policy analyst in the Health Policy Department of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Rajko Kolundzic (pronounced rai • ko) is an American postgraduate student at King's College London. His work has been featured in venues like Truthout, Salon and Electronic Intifada. Follow …

Jeremy Lent is author of The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning. His upcoming book, The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to …