Author Bios

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, …

Daniel Wolk, M.D., is on the faculty of the Bryn Mawr Family Medicine Residency Program and Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Philadelphia and Thomas Jefferson University and is a …

Chelli Stanley is a freelance journalist of African, Japanese and European descent, has traveled widely and volunteered with many cultural empowerment initiatives.