Author Bios

Rose Bookbinder is a co-director at the Pioneer Valley Workers Center, organizer with Jobs with Justice, and board chair of the Food Chain Workers Alliance.

Eleanore Catolico wrote this article for YES! Magazine. Eleanore is a freelance journalist covering environmental justice and city government in Detroit. Follow her on Twitter @e_catolico.

Journalist and author Daniel Golden is a Boston-based senior editor at ProPublica. Golden has been instrumental in three Pulitzer Prizes, two as an editor and one as a reporter. …

Sarah Marie Wiebe is an assistant professor in the department of political science at the University of Hawaii. She is the author of Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental …

Laurel Mei-Singh is an assistant professor of ethnic studies at the University of Hawaii Mānoa and serves on the board of directors of Hawai‘i Peace and Justice. She is …

Leonard L. Cavise is a professor of law emeritus and founder of the Center for Public Interest Law at DePaul University College of Law.

Ben Kharakh is a writer whose work has appeared in outlets like Vice and Fortune. Ben has been cited by “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee,” Gawker, Mother Jones, Shaun …

Elias König is a philosophy student based in Berlin, Germany.

Caitlin Proctor is an environmental engineer and a Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellow at Purdue University’s College of Engineering.

Andrew Whelton is an assistant professor at Purdue University. Whelton responded to the West Virginia chemical spill with a volunteer research team and was tapped by West Virginia Gov. …