Author Bios

Fania E. Davis is a leading national voice on race and restorative justice. Founding director emerita of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, she is a longtime social justice activist, …

Mary Kay Henry is president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

Karissa Lewis is national field director of Movement for Black Lives and executive director of the Center for Third World Organizing.

Woojin Lim is a philosophy and government student at Harvard University. He is editor-in-chief of The Harvard Review of Philosophy, which published a 2019 issue on “Philosophy and Race.”

Dr. Kirk “Jae” James is a social worker and a clinical professor at NYU Silver. He is formerly incarcerated and has dedicated his life to creating liberatory spaces to …

Cameron W. Rasmussen is a social worker, researcher, educator, and facilitator. He is an assistant professor at the Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health at the University …

Zamone Perez is a journalism intern with Center for Responsive Politics.

Vanessa Forti is Programme Associate at UNU-Vie-SCYCLE., United Nations University.

Rahsaan Mahadeo is an assistant professor in the Department of African American & African Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.  He is the author of Funk the Clock: …

Ann Marie Coviello is an English teacher and school librarian in New Orleans, Louisiana. She joined Teach For America in 1991 and is one of the few alumni from …