Author Bios

Mandy Smithberger is the director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Project On Government Oversight.

Ofer Raban is a professor of constitutional law at the University of Oregon.

Natalie Knight is Yurok from northern California and Diné (Navajo) from New Mexico. She lives on unceded Coast Salish territories, also known as Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Megan Wildhood is a freelance writer in Seattle. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Sun, and America Magazine, among others. Her first book, Long Division, was published in 2017. …

Hannah Thomasy is a freelance science writer with a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Washington. She is particularly interested in the intersections among human health, the environment, …

Christopher Witko is the Associate Director and Professor of the School of Public Policy at Pennsylvania State University.

Keith A. Spencer is the cover editor for Salon, and manages Salon's science, tech and health coverage.

Jim Keen, DVM, is a veterinarian with 25 years of research and field experience in livestock health and production medicine, veterinary public health, zoonotic infections and biomedicine. He is …

Sara Amundson is the president of the Humane Society Legislative Fund.

Foreign Policy in Focus columnist Laura Carlsen is also director of the Americas Program for the Center for International Policy in Mexico City.