Author Bios

Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard is a freelance journalist reporting on carceral institutions, politics and cultures. She is also a staff writer at Filter, a new online publication covering drug policy …

Curtisy Bryant is a cosmetics associate at the SouthCenter Macy’s and a member of UFCW 21, and was a member of the Macy’s contract bargaining team in 2018.

Nichole Booker is a sales associate at the SeaTac Macy’s and a member of UFCW 21, and was a member of the Macy’s contract bargaining team in 2018. 

Frank Chapman is the executive director of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.

T. Christian Miller is a senior reporter for ProPublica. In more than 20 years as a professional journalist and foreign correspondent, Miller has covered four wars, a presidential campaign …

Samantha Young is the California politics correspondent for California Healthline, drawing on her 20 years of experience covering local, state and federal government. As a former reporter for The …

Charles Tiefer is a professor of law at the University of Baltimore.

Jessica Owens-Young is Assistant Professor of Health Studies at the American University.

Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and Assistant Professor at George Mason University. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law in the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019). 

Scott Zimmerman is a Fellow at the Center for Media and Democracy. He graduated from St. Mary's College of Maryland with bachelors degrees in Political Science and Studio Art.