Author Bios

Jonah Furman is a staff writer and organizer for Labor Notes.

Christina Fialho is an attorney and the co-founder/executive director of Freedom for Immigrants (formerly CIVIC), a national nonprofit working to abolish the US immigration detention system.

Yasaswini Sampathkumar is a freelance writer and educator living in Assam, India. She spent a decade pursuing a career in molecular biology before turning to teaching and writing. She …

Luu D. Ireland is an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Paul Eselgroth is a contributor to Socialist Worker.

Luke Taylor is a freelance journalist based in Bogota, Colombia. He reports on Colombian politics and culture for leading written publications and radio broadcasters in Australia, Germany, the United …

Emmett Sanders is a formerly incarcerated researcher and writer who spent three months on an electronic monitor as a condition of his release after more than 22 years in …

Kimberly R. Kras is an assistant professor of criminology and justice studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. 

Lucy Goodchild van Hilten is a writing fellow for Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media Institute. She is a writer with a Master of …

Nicole Braun is an adjunct sociology professor in northern Michigan.