Author Bios

Shantel Meek is professor of practice and founding director of the Children’s Equity Project at Arizona State University. She previously served in the Obama administration as senior policy adviser …

Lisa Silvestri, Ph.D., is an associate professor of communication studies at Gonzaga University and author of Friended at the Front: Social Media in the American War Zone.

Olivia Snow Smith is a recent graduate of Bard College and the communications intern for Take On Wall Street.

Katherine Long is a contributor at YES! Magazine.

Vijay Das is a writer and advocate. He often writes on economic and social justice issues. Vijay is a Senior Policy Fellow at Data for Progress. Follow him @vijdas

Hannah Cross is a senior lecturer in International Relations at the University of Westminster and is chair of the Review of African Political Economy's editorial working group. She has a …

Patrick Farnsworth is a long-form interviewer and host of Last Born In The Wilderness, a weekly-released podcast that covers such broad topics as anthropogenic climate change, radical political theory and …

Dylan Dusseault is the former executive director of the Business Initiative for Health Policy (Now Business for Medicare for All) and currently works for the Agenda Project.

Isabela Dias is a Brazilian journalist covering immigration, human rights and gender issues. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Nation, Slate, Pacific Standard, Columbia Journalism Review …

Jennifer Beltrán is a research assistant with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’ Federal Fiscal Policy team. Prior to joining the Center, Beltrán worked as a research assistant …