Author Bios

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 …

Jacob Batinga is a JD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, concentrating on issues at the intersection of human rights, national security and international relations. 

Sandra Cordon is a contributing writer and editor with Global Landscapes Forum and the Center for International Forestry Research.