Author Bios

Jonathan Ben-Menachem is a criminal legal reform advocate who also writes about issues including policing and the criminalization of poverty.

Caitlin McLain is a member of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization Youth Group and currently a master’s candidate in science and security at King’s College London, with a …

Abram Wolfe is the pen name of a freelance writer and Solitary Watch contributor who focuses on issues of incarceration. He lives and works in the Washington, D.C., area.

Susan R. Crandall is a clinical professor/director of the Center for Social Policy at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Roxie Hammill is a contributor to Kaiser Health News.

Anna Massoglia is a researcher at the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP), where she researches foreign influence and is responsible for OpenSecrets’s Dark Money data. Anna first joined the CRP in …

Hassan El-Tayyab is the Friends Committee lead lobbyist on Middle East policy. He is convinced that advancing a more peaceful and diplomacy-based foreign policy in the Middle East is …

Jessica joined the Center for Responsive Politics as a reporting intern in June 2019. She is a recent graduate of Bowdoin College, where she studied economics and edited the …

Alice Wilder is a producer from North Carolina and Louisiana. Before joining the team, she worked on projects at NPR’s Planet Money, WNYC’s Nancy and Radiotopia.

Anjali Tsui is a Lorana Sullivan senior reporting fellow at ProPublica. She previously reported on immigration issues for Frontline PBS.