Author Bios

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 …

Michelle D. Chan is a writer, activist and founder and director of California Rise (formerly Parents Against CPS Corruption).

Tamara Toles O’Laughlin is the North America director for the global climate campaign 350.org.

Jose Benjamin Montaño is a freelance writer and translator. Follow Jose on Twitter: @jbmont.