Author Bios

Ian Karbal covers state government for the Pennsylvania Capital-Star. He's particularly interested in the influence of money in politics and how arcane policies affect Pennsylvanians across the state.

Faculty members at the University of California, Santa Cruz, that authored this piece include: Muriam Haleh Davis, Camilo Gómez-Rivas, Neel Ahuja, Anna Friz, Jerry Zee, Camilla Hawthorne, Lisa Rofel, …

Jeremy Mohler is Communications Director at In the Public Interest. He previously managed federal contracting proposal efforts at multiple small businesses in the Washington, D.C., area. Jeremy received a …

Sera Davidow is a mother, author, filmmaker and director of Wildflower Alliance, an advocacy, peer support and training organization formerly known as the Western Massachusetts Recovery Learning Community.

Josh covers climate and energy policy. Josh holds a BSc in zoology from the University of Bristol. He previously worked as science correspondent at The Independent and prior to …

Elizabeth MeLampy is a second-year law student at Harvard Law School and was a litigation extern at Animal Outlook.

Christopher Blackwell is serving a 45-year prison sentence in Washington State. He co-founded Look 2 Justice, an organization that provides civic education to system-impacted communities and actively works to …

Catherine Hodes currently lives in western Massachusetts where she works with survivors of domestic violence.

Lomi Kriel is a is a reporter with the ProPublica-Texas Tribune investigative unit.

Sam Levine is a voting rights reporter at the Guardian.