Truthout
Author Bios

Maryum Elnasseh
Maryum Elnasseh is a third-year honors student at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she is concentrating in both journalism and civil rights. She has spent the last few months covering …

Jack Delaney
Jack Delaney is a former disability policy analyst, federal lobbyist and congressional intern. Jack worked on issues relating to health care, disability and labor policy, and is an active …

Nick Alexandrov
Nick Alexandrov is an educator in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His writings are available on his website.

Timothy Malone
Timothy Malone is a professor of philosophy at Antioch University Los Angeles and is currently working on a dissertation using psychoanalysis and biopolitical theory to examine the prison regime. …

Leslie Crawford
Leslie Crawford is the author of Sprig the Rescue Pig and Gwen the Rescue Hen. She lives in San Francisco with her two children, six hens and four foster …

Blake Meredith
Blake Meredith is a third-year law student at Berkeley School of Law. He is interested in criminal legal reform, progressive policy and in creating a more equitable future for …

Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz
Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz is an assistant professor of film, media and theatre at Georgia State University.

Brian Sonenstein
Brian Sonenstein is publishing editor at Shadowproof. He is a writer living in Portland, Maine, and was formerly the associate publisher and campaign director for Firedoglake, where he organized …

Miski Noor
Miski Noor is the co-training director of Momentum. They are a writer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where they organize with Black Visions Collective, the only Black-led power and base-building …

Ben Ratskoff
Ben Ratskoff is a Los Angeles-based writer and scholar. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Jewish arts and politics journal PROTOCOLS.