Author Bios

Justin McBrien is a doctoral candidate in global environmental history at the University of Virginia. Follow Justin on Twitter: @justinmcbrien.

Jonita Davis is an Indiana writer who works regularly on social and cultural topics. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, the Guardian, The Fix, People’s World and …

Amanda Anger is a social worker at Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem.

Kelsey Hawkins-Johnson is a Landau Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies.

Yue Stella Yu joined the Center for Responsive Politics as a reporting intern in fall 2019. She's an investigative journalism major at the University of Missouri. She covered local …

Elana Sulakshana is the energy and finance campaigner at Rainforest Action Network.

Kristin Kumpf is the director of human migration and mobility at American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). Kristin leads AFSC’s work on immigration, and has organized to shut down the …

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 …

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 …