Author Bios

Margaret Sessa-Hawkins is a digital content creator at Birdlife International and a contributor at MapLight. Follow Margaret on Twitter: @MSessaHawkins. 

Hamsini leads Maplight’s work to research and promote policies that reform the political process. She has previously worked with nonprofits focusing on fair trade and financial transparency. She received …

Karen Romero is a consultant for American Friends Service Committee in Tijuana. She’s worked on migration issues at the border for almost a decade.

Robin Chazdon is Professor Emerita of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut.

Camille Goldmon is an intern with the Institute for Southern Studies. She is pursuing a Ph.D. in history at Emory University, where she studies the intersections of race, agriculture, …

Patty Wight is a graduate of the University of Vermont and a multiple award-winning reporter for Maine Public Radio. Her specialty is health coverage: from policy stories to patient …

Eleanor Goldfield is a creative radical, journalist and filmmaker as well as co-host with Mickey Huff of “The Project Censored Show” on Pacifica Radio, and the “Common Censored Podcast” …

Sarah Waters is a professor of French studies at the University of Leeds. Her book, Suicide Voices: Labour Trauma in France, will be published by Liverpool University Press in …

Tim Zelina is a digital co-editor The New Political and intern at Maplight. Follow him on Twitter: @tzelina98.

Abigail Luke is a contributor to Maplight and Tarbell.