Author Bios

Sam Bishop is a freelance writer and journalist whose work has been featured in a number of national publications. Follow him on Twitter: @sebishop99.

Martha Kinsella, who is counsel in the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program, is based in the Washington, D.C., office. She works on rights restoration, democracy reform and government reform. Her …

Rudy Mehrbani is a fellow and senior counsel at the Brennan Center. He leads the Center’s work on the bipartisan National Task Force on Rule of Law and Democracy.

Leslie Nemo is a freelance science journalist based in Michigan. Her reporting on everything from hemp farms to cactus transplants has appeared in publications like Scientific American, CityLab, Undark and …

Gideon Cohn-Postar is a Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

Lexi Churchill is a Scripps Howard research reporting fellow at ProPublica.

Adam Kolton is the executive director at Alaska Wilderness League. Follow the League on Twitter: @AlaskaWild. 

John A. Knight is the director of the ACLU of Illinois’s LGBTQ & HIV Project. 

Mitch Anderson is the founder and executive director of Amazon Frontlines. He has spent the past 15 years supporting the struggles of Indigenous people across the Americas. In 2011, …

Cécile Accilien is a professor of Francophone Studies at The University of Maryland (College Park). She is the current president of the Haitian Studies Association.