Author Bios

Kelly Flannery is an If/When/How fellow at Positive Women's Network.

Kenia Alcocer is the co-director and organizer of Union de Vecinos, a network of neighborhood groups in Los Angeles, and a co-chair of the California Poor People’s Campaign. This …

João França is a graduate in humanities from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Until 2017, he coordinated publishing for the Plural Journalism Foundation. Since then he has worked in a …

Max Richtman is president and CEO of the nonprofit National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. He is former staff director of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging.

Victoria Shineman is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh.

Violet Glaser is a contributor to Left Voice.

Tom McBrien is a contributor to the Brennan Center for Justice.

Harsha Panduranga is counsel in the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security program. Before joining the Brennan Center, he was a litigation associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in …

Cécile Blanchet is a Berlin-based researcher in geosciences with a focus on dynamics of past climatic changes. She is presently working as a post-doctoral fellow at the GeoForschungszentrum in …

Wendi C. Thomas is an award-winning independent journalist based in Memphis, Tennessee. Her work focuses on economic and racial justice. Thomas writes for The Christian Science Monitor, The Undefeated and is a …