Author Bios

Judy Lubin, Ph.D., MPH, is president of the Center for Urban and Racial Equity (CURE) and a sociologist with 20 years of experience working at the intersection of racial …

Jasmine Heiss is the campaign director for the In Our Backyards project, an initiative exploring the shifting geography of mass incarceration, at the Vera Institute of Justice.

Jack Norton is a geographer, and is a researcher at the Center on Sentencing and Corrections at the Vera Institute of Justice.

Armanda Shackelford is the mother of torture survivor Gerald Reed and is active with the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity.

Martin Lukacs is a journalist, a former environment writer for The Guardian and the author of The Trudeau Formula: Seduction and Betrayal in an Age of Discontent.

Lucian K. Truscott IV, a graduate of West Point, has had a 50-year career as a journalist, novelist and screenwriter. He has covered stories such as Watergate, the Stonewall …

Chris Walker is a news writer at Truthout, based in Madison, Wisconsin. Focusing on both national and local topics since the early 2000s, he has produced thousands of articles …

Sara Nelson is the president of the Association of Flight Attendants–Communications Workers of America.

Patricia Callahan is a senior reporter covering business. Callahan previously worked at the Chicago Tribune, where she was on the investigative team since 2004.

Minh-Ha T. Pham researches and writes about fashion labor in the contexts of globalization and digital/informational capitalism. Follow Minh-Ha on Twitter: @minh81.