Author Bios

Born in Missouri in 1936, Don Cox joined the Black Panther Party one year after its founding in 1966. Appointed as the party’s field marshal, known as “D.C.,” he …

Robert Howard is a husband, father, artist and builder in San Francisco, California. He was a juror in the trial of Dwayne Lee Johnson v. Monsanto during the summer …

A member of Kochs Off Campus, Dee Maitland is a retired commercial banker, active volunteer and a Public Voices fellow with The OpEd Project.

Rebecca Tarlau is an assistant professor of education and of labor at the Pennsylvania State University. 

Valerie Kiebala is a contributing writer for Solitary Watch.

Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD, is the executive director of the Climate Emergency Fund, the principal of Climate Awakening and the author of Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform …

Maria De Jesus is an associate professor at American University and research fellow at Center on Health, Risk, and Society at the American University School of International Service.

Patrick Sullivan is San Diego Site Manager at the Bail Project, a national nonprofit organization on a mission to create a more just and equitable pretrial system in the …

Saurav Sarkar is a contributor to Labor Notes. 

Calvin Thrall is a Ph.D. student in business and development at the University of Texas at Austin.