Author Bios

Heidi Pearson is Associate Professor of Marine Biology at the University of Alaska Southeast.

Maya Miller is an engagement reporting fellow with ProPublica's Local Reporting Network. She works with journalists across the country on community-centered investigations.

Mike Pappas is a resident physician practicing family medicine in New York City. He can be contacted at [email protected]

Jay Ramasubramanyam is a PhD candidate in the Department of Law and Legal Studies with a specialization in Political Economy, at Carleton University, Ottawa. He was awarded the Graduate …

Helyeh Doutaghi is the deputy director of the Law and Political Economy Project and an associate research scholar at Yale Law School.

Carl Davidson is a socialist writer and educator. He was a leader of the New Left of the 1960s. Today, he resides in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, where he was born …

Cristian Salazar is a Brooklyn-based writer, investigator, and journalist whose work has been published by The Associated Press, The Daily Beast and The Washington Post. He is currently a …

Shari Silberstein is the executive director of Equal Justice USA, a national organization working to transform the legal system by promoting trauma-informed responses to violence.

Tania Unzueta Carrasco is a first-generation Mexican immigrant and the political director at Mijente. She has decades of experience in immigration advocacy, deportation defense, and political strategy, and is …

Stephanie Russell-Kraft is a freelance reporter focused on the intersections of religion, culture, gender and the law. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, NYMag.com, Vice, AlterNet, Refinery 29, …