Author Bios

An Italian multimedia journalist, Andrea Umbrello tells frontline stories through articles published in international outlets, podcasts, and photojournalism. Balancing rigor and empathy, they've spent years documenting Palestinian issues, human …

Ella Ward is a 22-year-old from Birmingham, central England, who is facing up to 10 years in prison for planning to engage in nonviolent climate activism.

Mai Der Vang is the author of Primordial (Graywolf Press, 2025), Yellow Rain (Graywolf Press, 2021), and Afterland (Graywolf Press, 2017). Her honors include the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, an …

liz margolies, LCSW, is a psychotherapist, practicing in New York City. Since her son’s arrest, she has also become an advocate for other mothers. She leads two online support …

Sarah Trent is a freelance journalist who covers people and ecosystems affected by climate change and environmental degradation, especially in California and the Pacific Northwest. She lives in Vancouver, …

Curtis Duncan is an anti-civilization anarchist, environmentalist, and advocate for Black lives. He attended Hampton University with a concentration in marketing and received an MBA in marketing from Clark …

Robert Pastore is an incarcerated writer and scholar interested in the politics of incarceration, philosophy and biology. His writing has previously appeared in Defector and Prism Reports. He is …

Ángeles Donoso Macaya (she/they) is an immigrant feminist scholar and writer from Santiago, Chile, based in New York. She is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literatures and Cultures …

Shelley Welton is the Presidential Distinguished Professor of Law and Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School where she holds an affiliation with the Kleinman Center …

Nikki Luke, Ph.D., is an urban geographer who studies energy and labor politics. Her research investigates the effects of urban energy governance on workers and communities. She studies how …