Author Bios

Charles Tiefer is a professor of law at the University of Baltimore.

Jessica Owens-Young is Assistant Professor of Health Studies at the American University.

Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and Assistant Professor at George Mason University. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law in the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019). 

Scott Zimmerman is a Fellow at the Center for Media and Democracy. He graduated from St. Mary's College of Maryland with bachelors degrees in Political Science and Studio Art.

Tiffany Jones is director of higher education policy at The Education Trust.

Alexander Nabavi-Noori is a first-year student at Yale Law School where he is a board member of the Latinx Law Students Association and studies issues related to public policy, …

Nan Enstad is the Robinson Edwards Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, an affiliate of the Gender and Women’s Studies Department and the Afro-American Studies Department, …

Makeda Yohannes serves as a research and program associate in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, where she focuses on voting rights and elections. Prior to …

Aura Bogado is a reporter for Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, covering  immigration. Previously, she was a staff writer at Grist, where she wrote about the intersection …

Elizabeth Henderson is a freelance journalist based in Philadelphia. She has previously written for Dissent, City Limits and The Indypendent. You can follow her at @lizthenderson.