Author Bios

Lee Schlenker is a research associate with the Global South program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and a MA candidate in Latin American Studies at Georgetown University's …

Joedy McCreary is a senior reporter at OpenSecrets. He has more than 25 years of journalism experience at The Associated Press, USA Today and WNCN-TV, the CBS affiliate in …

Vic Liu (they/she) lives and works in Brooklyn as a writer and artist. Their book, The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration (July 2024, PM Press), co-authored with …

Dr. Diana Hernández is a tenured Associate Professor at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, the Founding Principal Investigator of the Energy Equity, Housing and Health Program and …

Jeff Wright is an ordained minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

Maia Rosenfeld is a data reporter on the enterprise team at KFF Health News. As a hybrid numbers/news nerd, she uses data analysis to find the people behind statistics …

Reporter Jerod MacDonald-Evoy joined the Arizona Mirror from the Arizona Republic, where he spent 4 years covering everything from dark money in politics to Catholic priest sexual abuse scandals. …

Omar Zahzah is a writer, poet, organizer of Lebanese Palestinian descent, and assistant professor of Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies at San Francisco State University. Omar …

Hassan Herzallah is a Palestinian writer and translator based in Gaza, currently in his fourth year studying English translation. He writes about Middle East affairs and life under siege, …

Paul Cobler is the Texas Tribune's economy and industry reporter, covering the socioeconomic and political forces that impact Texans’ pocketbooks and upward mobility. Before joining the Tribune, he was …