Author Bios

Aria Fani is an assistant professor in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Washington. He is the author of Reading across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism and …

Darius Tahir, correspondent at KFF Health News, is based in Washington, D.C. and reports on health technology with an eye toward how it helps (or doesn’t) underserved populations; how it can …

Benjamin Y. Fong is associate director of the Center for Work and Democracy at Arizona State University. He has a Substack focusing on labor and logistics called On the …

Laura Montanari is a student based in Germany and is part of Precarious Disconnections collective in Italy and of Transnational Social Strike Platform.

Martina is a journalist and editor with experience covering climate change, extreme weather, climate policy and litigation. She is the Editor-in-Chief at Earth.Org, where she is responsible for breaking …

Narges Bajoghli is a writer, scholar and public intellectual whose work explores the intersections of revolutions, media and war in global politics. She is associate professor at Johns Hopkins …

Indy Scholtens is a contributor at OpenSecrets.

Piyas Biswas is a visual storyteller and documentary photographer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Molly Peterson is a Los Angeles-based staff writer for Public Health Watch. Previously she worked in public media, at KQED, LAist, WWNO, NPR and, most recently, the California Newsroom, where …

Nick Limbeck is on the executive board of the Chicago Teachers Union.