Author Bios

Ashley Theissen is a contributor to Socialist Worker.

Kevin Martin is president of Peace Action, the country’s largest grassroots peace and disarmament organization with over 200,000 supporters nationwide. He also serves as coordinator of the Korea Peace …

Jordan N. DeLoach is a Black and queer artist, writer and organizer born and raised in Maryland. She uses art and writing to uplift the stories of Black queer, …

Dr. Zia Okocha is a family medicine physician and faculty development fellow in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota. She is also …

Bruce Baker is professor in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. His research focuses on state school finance policies, the economics of …

Derek Black is a professor of law at the University of South Carolina School of Law. His areas of expertise include education law and policy, constitutional law, civil rights, …

Ana Levy-Lyons is the author of No Other Gods: The Politics of the Ten Commandments (Hachette, March 2018) and contributing editor at Tikkun magazine.  She serves as senior minister …

Jon Jeter is the author of Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People, and the co-author, with Robert Pierre, of A Day Late and a …

Heidi Steinour is a social science researcher and a visiting instructor at the University of South Florida. She graduated with her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Florida …

Jessica Schubel is a senior policy analyst who rejoined the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in 2017. In this role, she examines issues related to Medicaid, including the …