Author Bios

Joseph M. Pierce is associate professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Argentine Intimacies: Queer Kinship in an …

Alex Adams is a working-class nonbinary writer based in Jarrow, South Tyneside. They’ve written two books about the representation of torture, one of which focused exclusively on the ways …

Jacob Batinga is a JD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, concentrating on issues at the intersection of human rights, national security and international relations. 

Sandra Cordon is a contributing writer and editor with Global Landscapes Forum and the Center for International Forestry Research.

Robert Nasi is the director general of the Center for International Forestry Research.

Hilary Moore is a writer, teacher and anti-racist political education trainer. She is co-author of No Fascist USA! The John Brown Anti Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements, …

Sabra Williams is an actor and activist, and co-founded The Actors’ Gang Prison Project. Her current organization, Creative Acts, was co-founded with Cheryl Bonacci.

Tom Lewandowski is the director of the Workers’ Project, Inc., a not-for profit based in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

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 …