Author Bios

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.

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.