Author Bios

Yurissa Varela is a contributor to Inter Press Service.

Duminda Perera is a contributor to Inter Press Service.

Praem Mehta is a contributor to Inter Press Service.

Yina Shan is a contributor to Inter Press Service.

Tory Becker is a Bay Area-based lesbian/queer political activist who worked for many years as a psychiatric emergency nurse and later as a nurse practitioner in the methadone program …

Matthew Hayes is associate professor of sociology at St. Thomas University, Fredericton, Canada, and Canada Research Chair in Global and International Studies. He is the author of Gringolandia: Lifestyle …

Barbara Cecil is the author of the book Coming Into Your Own: A Woman’s Guide Through Life Transitions. The book is a roadmap through life’s thresholds. It is woven with …

Matthew Byrne is a writer and translator whose writing has appeared, or will soon, in Guernica, The Brooklyn Rail, Truthout and elsewhere. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. 

Lucas Robinson joined the Center for Responsive Politics as a reporting intern in January 2019. He is currently a graduate student at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. 

Mik Kinkead is a staff attorney and director of the Prisoner Justice Project at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP). He was previously SRLP’s attorney on Cruz v. Zucker, …