Author Bios

Gretchen E. Ely is Professor of Social Work and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.

Francesca Emanuele is a Latin American journalist and a Ph.D. student in the Department of Anthropology at American University.

Peter Elkind is a senior reporter at ProPublica covering the Trump administration.

Jonah Minkoff-Zern is co-director of Public Citizen’s Democracy Is For People campaign. Follow him on Twitter: @jonahmz.

Laura Peterson is a writer and policy wonk based in Washington, D.C.

Brittany Gibson is a writing fellow at The American Prospect.

Olivia Katbi Smith is co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) of Portland, Oregon, and a member of DSA’s national Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, and Palestine solidarity working …

India McKinney is the director of federal affairs at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Prior to joining EFF, she spent over 10 years in Washington, D.C., as a legislative …

xoài phạm is a Vietnamese trans person who has a complicated relationship with womanhood. She's currently the digital media queen at Transgender Law Center. She comes from a long …

Lewis Webb is coordinator of the Healing Justice Program at American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). Lewis leads AFSC’s work on the prison system, and cultivates young activists to dismantle …