Author Bios

Rita Valenti is a retired nurse and a member of the Coordinating Committee of the People’s CDC.

Joe Sexauer is director of membership services and organizing at Racine Educators United.

Rose Ying is a PhD candidate and organizer with the Graduate Labor Union-UAW at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Valentina Dallona moved to the U.S. for grad school at Johns Hopkins University, where she founded and led the graduate workers' union drive. She then became a full time …

Christopher Bing covers the rapid intersection between technology and national security for Propublica.

Noam Sandweiss-Back, born in Jerusalem and raised in New Jersey, is an organizer and writer. He has spent a decade organizing among the poor and dispossessed, including with the …

Nicole Foy is ProPublica’s Ancil Payne Fellow, reporting on immigration and labor. Before joining ProPublica, she was an enterprise and investigative reporter across the West, focusing on immigrants, Latino …

Katerina Canyon is the executive director of the Peace Economy Project, an organization advocating for the reallocation of military spending toward social programs. She writes about the intersection of …

Ghada Abu Muaileq is an English literature and translation student at the Islamic University in Gaza. She writes articles and stories from the life of war in Gaza, documenting …

Baynard Woods is a contributor at Baltimore Beat.