Author Bios

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.

Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez is a nurse and the president of the New York State Nurses Association.

Markian Hawryluk is the senior Colorado correspondent for Kaiser Health News, based in Denver

Suhas Gondi (@suhas_gondi) is a medical student at Harvard Medical School.

Soleil Shah (@soleil_shah) is a medical student at Stanford University School of Medicine, a former U.S.-U.K. Fulbright Scholar, and a former researcher for the World Health Organization’s European Observatory …

Vianna Davila is a reporter with the ProPublica/Texas Tribune investigative unit. Previously, she was the editor of The Seattle Times’s Project Homeless initiative, which examines the causes and effects …