Author Bios

Sabra Williams is an actor and activist, and co-founded The Actors’ Gang Prison Project. Her current organization, Creative Acts, was co-founded with Cheryl Bonacci.

Tom Lewandowski is the director of the Workers’ Project, Inc., a not-for profit based in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Joaqlin Estus is a longtime journalist based in Anchorage, Alaska.

Mike Spies is a reporter based in ProPublica’s Washington, D.C., newsroom. Spies was previously a senior reporter for The Trace, an independent, nonprofit news organization dedicated to expanding coverage …

Paula Moura is a contributor to ProPublica.

Christian Fuchs is a critical theorist and a professor of media and communication studies at the University of Westminster. He applies critical theory to the study of the media …

Devin Beaulieu is an anthropologist living in Bolivia who has worked for years with Indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon. His work focuses on enactment of the new constitution …

Raul Dorado is an incarcerated student, author and criminal legal reform advocate. He recently graduated from Northeastern Illinois University’s University Without Walls bachelor’s degree program with a B.A. in …

Susie Aquilina is an educator and historian who researches social justice and culture making on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Claire F.R. Wordley is a research associate of Conservation Evidence in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge.