Author Bios

Arash Azizzada is an immigrant, Afghan-American filmmaker and community organizer based in Los Angeles, California. He started his activism by leading voter registration campaigns for the Afghan-American community, translating …

Luke is an investigative journalist based in Washington, D.C. He was most recently a writing fellow at the American Prospect and was with the Open Markets Institute before that. …

Pooja Salhotra joined The Texas Tribune in 2022 as its first-ever East Texas reporter based in Lufkin, where she covered a vast region that borders three states and stretches north …

Jessica Halliday Hardie is a professor of sociology at CUNY Hunter College and the Graduate Center. She is author of Best Laid Plans: Women Coming of Age in Uncertain Times. …

Jesse Baum is a contributor at Capital & Main.

Nyki Duda is a freelance editor and writer. She has written about migration, social movements and far right politics for Dissent, In These Times, The Progressive, and more. Duda …

Rashida James-Saadiya is a cultural educator and Executive Director of the Muslim Power Building Project, a national leadership collective that supports emerging Muslim organizers in building sustainable movements rooted …

Sabreen Dawud is a reporting fellow for The 19th. She's most recently served as a freelance writer for AFRO-American Newspapers covering social and cultural issues, and editor-in-chief of Six …

Eden Turner is a reporting fellow for The 19th. Before The 19th, she served as the education and politics reporter for the Times-News in Twin Falls, Idaho, a small …