Author Bios

Alejandra Acosta is a policy analyst with New America’s higher education initiative.

Caroline Siegel Singh, an undergraduate studying political science and public policy at the University of California, San Diego, is an intern with New America’s higher education initiative.

Andrea Mazzarino co-founded Brown University’s Costs of War Project. She is an activist and social worker interested in the health impacts of war. She has held various clinical, research, and …

Joshua Cho is a writer based in New York City.

Jenny Gustafsson is an independent journalist and editor, living in Beirut since 2009. She reports from across the Middle East and South Asia, on issues including society, development, migration, …

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.