Author Bios

Lynn Casteel Harper is the minister of older adults at The Riverside Church, a former nursing home chaplain, and the author of the new book "On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, …

Daniella Burgi-Palomino is the co-director of the Latin America Working Group, a nongovernmental organization advocating for just U.S. policies toward Latin America and the Caribbean. Follow her on Twitter: …

Erik Edstrom is the author of the new book Un-American: A Soldier's Reckoning of Our Longest War (Bloomsbury). He is a graduate of West Point and the University of Oxford, …

Kimya Forouzan is an If/When/How reproductive justice legal fellow at the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum.

Joe Scott is a member of Slowprint, a Seattle club producing zines and posters to support movements and shock stagnant political discourse. His writing has appeared in Yes! Magazine and Points …

Bill Blum is a retired judge and a lawyer in Los Angeles. He is a lecturer at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication. He writes regularly …

Benjamin Hardy is a research reporting fellow for the Local Reporting Network.

Regina Russell is co-chair of the Chicago Alliance against Racist and Political Repression and a member of Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity (MAMAS).

Jason Wu is an abolitionist, legal services attorney and writer in New York City. Follow him on Twitter: @CriticalRace.

April Fisher is a recent graduate of the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism and freelance researcher with VICE. They can be found on Twitter at: …