Author Bios

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 …

Sarah Lustbader is senior legal counsel at The Justice Collaborative and a senior contributor to The Appeal. She was previously senior program associate at the Vera Institute of Justice …

Casey O’Brien is a feminist, invisibly disabled Bay Area journalist with a focus on justice, advocacy and social change. She’s been published in San Francisco Magazine, The Bold Italic, …

Paola Banchero is an associate professor of Journalism and Public Communications at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

John R. Talbott is a best-selling author whose 10 books predicted the housing crash in the U.S. in 2006, the ensuing global financial crisis of 2008-2009 and, before that, …

Laura Pangallozzi is a visiting assistant professor of Geography at Binghamton University, State University of New York.

Samantha Waxman is a policy analyst within the State Fiscal Project. Her work focuses on tax credits for low-income families and budget and tax rules in states. Prior to …