Author Bios

Dr. Jenna A. Lamphere is an assistant professor of sociology at Texas A&M University at Galveston. She is a sustainability transition scholar, with an emphasis on large-scale, multi-sector change.

Kristin Garrity is Bridge Initiative senior research fellow at Georgetown University.

Mobashra Tazamal is a Bridge Initiative senior research fellow at Georgetown University.

Laura McTighe is an assistant professor at Florida State University, the co-founder and associate director of Front Porch Research Strategy in New Orleans, and the former director of Project …

Emily Hobson is an associate professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, and author of Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left (University of …

Judy Lubin, Ph.D., MPH, is president of the Center for Urban and Racial Equity (CURE) and a sociologist with 20 years of experience working at the intersection of racial …

Jasmine Heiss is the campaign director for the In Our Backyards project, an initiative exploring the shifting geography of mass incarceration, at the Vera Institute of Justice.

Jack Norton is a geographer, and is a researcher at the Center on Sentencing and Corrections at the Vera Institute of Justice.

Armanda Shackelford is the mother of torture survivor Gerald Reed and is active with the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity.

Martin Lukacs is a journalist, a former environment writer for The Guardian and the author of The Trudeau Formula: Seduction and Betrayal in an Age of Discontent.