Author Bios

Abby Clark, who hails from Florence, Alabama, is a rising senior at Princeton University where she specializes in American literature and African American archival history.

Justin Vassallo is a contributing editor to ThoughtFull from Brooklyn, NY.

Shawna Foo is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Arizona State University.

Christina Leza is an associate professor of Anthropology at Colorado College

Joe Wertz joined the Center for Public Integrity’s environment and labor team in 2019. He previously worked as a managing editor and senior reporter at StateImpact Oklahoma, a journalism …

Nina Turner is from Cleveland, Ohio, where she has served on the city council and in the Ohio State Senate. She was the 2014 Democratic nominee for secretary of …

Malkia Devich-Cyril is an activist, a writer and a public speaker on the issues of digital rights, narrative power, Black liberation and collective grief. Devich-Cyril is also a senior …

Terry Anne Scott is a former professor of African American history and chair of the Department of History at Hood College. She is the director of the Institute for …

David Rehkopf is an associate professor of medicine at Stanford University. 

Alice Milivinti is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences and Stanford Center on Longevity.