Author Bios

Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner is a writer based in New York. She is a writing fellow at Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media Institute. She’s …

Irene Martinez M.D., is an attending physician at the Division of General Medicine at the John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago; an assistant professor at Rush Medical …

Matthew M. Heidtmann is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Stony Brook University and an adjunct professor in history at Suffolk County Community College. His research revolves around American …

Jo Yurcaba is a freelance reporter based in North Carolina. They cover sexual violence, LGBTQ+ rights and pop culture. Follow them on Twitter: @JoYurcaba.

Ann Eisenberg is an assistant professor of law at the University of South Carolina.

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.