Author Bios

Imani Barbarin is the creator behind CrutchesAndSpice.com, a blog on disability rights and identity at the intersection of race and gender. She is a francophone hailing from the Philadelphia area …

Tim Schwartz is the author of A Public Service: Whistleblowing, Disclosure and Anonymity. His work as an artist, activist, and technologist focuses on data privacy and digital information. Schwartz …

Rafael Logroño is a bilingual journalist, writer and college instructor from Philadelphia. He teaches and writes about Latinx communities, race, and media.

Sonja Michal Smith, Ta'neeszahnii from the Diné (Navajo) Nation, is a graduate student from Northern Arizona University in socio-cultural anthropology. Her research includes missing and murdered Indigenous people and …

Gwendolyn Saul is an ethnographer and cultural anthropologist interested in creative and innovative ways to implement critical Indigenous theory into museum spaces and practices. Her research and scholarship has …

Lisa Hardy is a medical anthropologist studying health, well-being, equity and COVID-19. Her past research focuses on minority health and policy in the U.S. southwest. She directs the Social …

David Forrest ([email protected]) is an assistant professor of politics at Oberlin College, where he studies political organizations, social movements and inequality in the United States.

George O’Connor is a New York Times–bestselling author and illustrator of the Olympians series as well as the graphic novels Journey into Mohawk Country and Ball Peen Hammer. His …

Daniel G. Newman is a national expert on government accountability and money in politics. He is president and co-founder of MapLight, a nonpartisan nonprofit that promotes transparency and political …

Dr. Jody Steinauer is a professor of obstetrics and gynecology, the director of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco, and the …