Author Bios

Francesca Gomes is a teacher in Brooklyn.

Mari Mari Narváez is the founder and executive director of Kilómetro 0 (Kilometer Zero), an organization that fights police repression and violence in Puerto Rico.

Marisol LeBrón is an assistant professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Policing Life and Death: Race, …

Formerly an electronics engineer for the Naval Air Warfare Center-Weapons Division, Jim Bronke spoke out against the Iraq War in 2003 as a member of Military Families Speak Out. …

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.