Author Bios

Jhumpa Bhattacharya is the vice president of programs and strategy at the Insight Center, a 50-year-old racial and economic justice research and advocacy organization. Jhumpa’s work on gender and …

Nimanthi Perera-Rajasingham is an associate professor of English and Women’s Studies at Colgate University.

Candice Amich is an assistant professor of English at Vanderbilt University.

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.