Author Bios

Tara García Mathewson is a staff writer at The Hechinger Report.

Kirsten Carlson is Associate Professor of Law and Adjunct Associate Professor of Political Science at Wayne State University.

Katherine J. Wu is a Boston-based science journalist and Story Collider senior producer who has written for Smithsonian, NOVA Next, Scientific American, and more. She holds a Ph.D. in microbiology …

Liz Willen is the editor-in-chief of The Hechinger Report.

Joel Segal served for more than a decade as senior legislative assistant to U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan) specializing in health care. He helped draft key national bills, including Medicare for All. …

Ivie Osaghae is the former communications associate at Women on the Rise. A communications strategist based in Atlanta, Georgia, she is shaping new worlds and building narrative power in …

Shiyam Galyon is based in Texas and writes about conflict through an antiwar lens. She is on the Leadership Team of Radical Communicators Network and a member of World Without Prisons …

Alex Henderson is a news writer at AlterNet and veteran political journalist. His work has also appeared in Salon, Raw Story, Truthdig, National Memo, Philadelphia Weekly, Democratic Underground, L.A. …

Chiraag Bains is the director of legal strategies at the racial justice think-and-do tank Dēmos. Follow him at @chiraagbains.

Mona Wang is a staff technologist working on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF) initiative to encrypt the entire internet. Mona develops STARTTLS Everywhere, an initiative to secure email delivery, …