Author Bios

Andrew Mayersohn is a contributor to OpenSecrets.

Gwynne Hogan is a senior reporter covering immigration, homelessness, and many things in between. Her coverage of the migrant crisis earned her the Newswomen’s Club of New York’s Journalist …

The Grist staff cover climate and environmental issues on Grist.org.

Keri Blakinger covers criminal justice for ProPublica, with a focus on prisons and the death penalty.

Alaa Dmeida is a Palestinian writer from Gaza. Her work explores displacement, memory, and life under war. Her writing has appeared in Al Jazeera, The Progressive, Palestine Deep Dive, …

Neha Madhira is an award-winning gender, health and politics reporter with a focus in South Asia and the Middle East. Previously, she was a breaking news reporter in Austin, …

Maia Siegel’s writing is published or forthcoming in Granta, Epiphany, HouseHouse Magazine, The Bennington Review, The Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. She lives in New York.

Claire Cleary is a contributor to OpenSecrets.

Brasil de Fato is a Brazilian digital newspaper and radio agency.

Laura Hernández is the executive director of Freedom for Immigrants, an abolitionist, immigrant-led nonprofit organization devoted to ending immigration incarceration and winning a future in which all people can …