Author Bios

Roy L. Austin Jr. is a partner at the law firm Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis; a former deputy assistant to the president for the Office of Urban Affairs, Justice …

Shantel Meek is professor of practice and founding director of the Children’s Equity Project at Arizona State University. She previously served in the Obama administration as senior policy adviser …

Lisa Silvestri, Ph.D., is an associate professor of communication studies at Gonzaga University and author of Friended at the Front: Social Media in the American War Zone.

Olivia Snow Smith is a recent graduate of Bard College and the communications intern for Take On Wall Street.

Katherine Long is a contributor at YES! Magazine.

Vijay Das is a writer and advocate. He often writes on economic and social justice issues. Vijay is a Senior Policy Fellow at Data for Progress. Follow him @vijdas

Hannah Cross is a senior lecturer in International Relations at the University of Westminster and is chair of the Review of African Political Economy's editorial working group. She has a …

Patrick Farnsworth is a long-form interviewer and host of Last Born In The Wilderness, a weekly-released podcast that covers such broad topics as anthropogenic climate change, radical political theory and …

Dylan Dusseault is the former executive director of the Business Initiative for Health Policy (Now Business for Medicare for All) and currently works for the Agenda Project.

Isabela Dias is a Brazilian journalist covering immigration, human rights and gender issues. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Nation, Slate, Pacific Standard, Columbia Journalism Review …