Author Bios

Evan Vorpahl is the director of True North Research's State Courts and Democracy Project, with a focus on tracking dark money groups distorting public policy, elections, and our judiciary.

Scott Cooper is a writer, editor, and longtime socialist activist who lives in the Boston area.

Jindu Obiofuma is an attorney and abolitionist walking in the ever-unfolding spirit of abolition democracy. She works as a movement researcher at the Columbia Justice Lab in support of …

Robert J. Blendon is Richard L. Menschel Professor of Public Health and Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis, Emeritus, at Harvard University.

John M. Benson is Senior Research Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University.

Mary G. Findling is Research Associate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University.

Iris Figueroa is the director of economic and environmental justice for Farmworker Justice, a nonprofit that seeks to empower migrant and seasonal farmworkers to improve their living and working …

Darryl Knudsen is the executive director of International Rivers.

Michael Simon was a member of the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Forum.

Deborah Moore is a former commissioner of the World Commission on Dams.