Author Bios

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 …

Amihai Glazer, a professor of economics, is an expert on relations between special interests and government, directing the program on Corporate Welfare Studies at the University of California, Irvine. …

Thurka Sangaramoorthy is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Maryland.

Natalie Schreyer is a contributor to Kaiser Health News.