Author Bios

Rigodis Appling is a public defender and a member of the Black Attorneys of Legal Aid caucus at the Legal Aid Society.

Lyn Rye is a writer and organizer with the Little Village Solidarity Network in Chicago, a community group fighting to abolish migrant child detention.

Matthew M. Cappiello is an internist and pediatrician from California.

Grace Kiersznowski is active in politics in Athens, Georgia, and is a former Sanders campaign phone banker and activist. She is completing her bachelor’s degree in philosophy at the …

Chris Byron is an adjunct instructor of philosophy at Calhoun Community College and is finishing his doctorate in philosophy this semester at the University of Georgia. He has published …

Anthony Pahnke is vice president of the Family Farm Defenders, and an assistant professor of international relations at San Francisco State University in San Francisco. 

Liz Theoharis is a theologian, ordained minister and anti-poverty activist. Director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary and co-chair of the …

Natalia Aristizabal is director for immigrant justice at the Center for Popular Democracy.

Maryam Jameel is an engagement reporter working on community-sourced investigations out of ProPublica’s Washington, D.C., newsroom. Her reporting focuses on how federal policy affects workplace rights. Previously, she was a reporter …

Isabel Solange Muñoz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville