Author Bios

Vaidya Gullapalli serves as senior legal counsel at The Justice Collaborative and has spent several years as a human rights advocate, public defender and journalist in the U.S. and …

Urie Dvorozniak is an editorial intern at Salon.

Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann is a professor emeritus of the Department of Political Science at  Wilfrid Laurier University.

Yeganeh Torbati covers the U.S. federal government for ProPublica and is based in Washington, D.C. Before joining ProPublica in June 2019, she covered immigration at Reuters.

Sarah Moore is an intern with the Institute for Southern Studies. She is pursuing bachelor's degrees in political science and gender and women's history at the University of North Carolina …

Erica Frankenberg is Professor of Education and Demography at Pennsylvania State University.

Dedrick Asante-Muhammad is Chief of Equity Inclusion at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.

Rose Ramirez is a civil rights investigator at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.

Emily L. Thuma is an assistant professor of American politics and public law at the University of Washington, Tacoma.

Claire Heddles is a multimedia journalist whose work has appeared in NPR, Al Jazeera and The Advocate. Raised in the Tucson, Arizona, desert, she recently completed a master's degree …