Author Bios

Anne Branigin is a staff writer for The Root.

Holly Zhang is a researcher with the Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative at the Center for International Policy.

Danielle Renwick is an independent journalist who covers health, gender and immigration.

Kevin Young teaches history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of Abolishing Fossil Fuels: Lessons from Movements That Won, which contains a more detailed history of …

Satya Vatti is a journalist with BreakThrough News, an independent media platform in the United States highlighting the untold stories of the resistance of poor and working-class communities. She …

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.