Author Bios

Melonie Griffiths is a member of Families for Justice in Boston and interim co-director of Freedom to Thrive.

Elias Rodriques is an assistant professor of African American literature at Sarah Lawrence. His first novel is All the Water I’ve Seen Is Running.

Megan Bang (Ojibwe and Italian descent) is a professor of learning sciences and psychology at Northwestern University. Bang studies dynamics of culture, learning, and identity in science education in …

Daniel Morales-Doyle is an assistant professor of science education in the Department of Curriculum of Instruction at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research examines the potential for …

Jessica Glenza is a health reporter at the Guardian US.

Barbara Shelly is a freelance journalist. She began her journalism career covering school boards for a daily newspaper in Reading, Pennsylvania. After stints as a reporter in Syracuse, New …

Sidney Miralao is a Next Leader at the Institute for Policy Studies.

David Stovall, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Black Studies and Department of Criminology, Law and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Michelle R. Smith is a correspondent for The Associated Press.

Jenn M. Jackson (they/them) is a queer androgynous Black woman, an abolitionist, a lover of all Black people and an assistant professor at Syracuse University in the Department of …