Author Bios

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, …

Hannah Walker is a staff attorney and director of the Survival and Self-Determination Project at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project where she represents individuals on a variety of civil …

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.