Author Bios

Joaqlin Estus is a longtime journalist based in Anchorage, Alaska.

Mike Spies is a reporter based in ProPublica’s Washington, D.C., newsroom. Spies was previously a senior reporter for The Trace, an independent, nonprofit news organization dedicated to expanding coverage …

Paula Moura is a contributor to ProPublica.

Christian Fuchs is a critical theorist and a professor of media and communication studies at the University of Westminster. He applies critical theory to the study of the media …

Devin Beaulieu is an anthropologist living in Bolivia who has worked for years with Indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon. His work focuses on enactment of the new constitution …

Raul Dorado is an incarcerated student, author and criminal legal reform advocate. He recently graduated from Northeastern Illinois University’s University Without Walls bachelor’s degree program with a B.A. in …

Susie Aquilina is an educator and historian who researches social justice and culture making on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Claire F.R. Wordley is a research associate of Conservation Evidence in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge.

Frances Madeson has written about liberation struggles in the U.S. and abroad for Ms. Magazine, VICE, YES! Magazine, The Progressive Magazine, Tablet Magazine, American Theatre Magazine and Indian Country Today. She is also the author of the …

Jennifer Steele is an associate professor at American University in Washington, D.C., where she studies education policy and the economics of education.