Author Bios

Anna Claire Vollers covers health care for Stateline. She is based in Huntsville, Alabama.

Chris Gelardi is a reporter for New York Focus investigating the state’s criminal-legal system. His work has appeared in more than a dozen other outlets, most frequently The Nation, …

Julia Rock is a reporter for New York Focus. She was previously an investigative reporter at The Lever.

Margaret Coker is editor-in-chief of The Current GA, based in Coastal Georgia. She started her two-decade career in journalism at Cox Newspapers before going to work at The Wall …

Timothy James Young is a poet, writer, editor, abolitionist and wrongfully convicted man, who has been incarcerated in California since 1999. His work has previously been featured in Scalawag …

Hanieh Jodat is a political strategist and a key strategist with Defuse Nuclear War, an initiative of RootsAction. She also serves as the Chair of Progressive Democrats of America …

Mariana Martínez Barba is a freelance journalist based in Mexico and the U.S. who produces multimedia stories on immigration, culture and politics. Her work has been featured in The …

Malak Hijazi is a writer based in Gaza.

Robin Urevich is a journalist and radio reporter whose work has appeared on NPR, Marketplace, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Las Vegas Sun.

Jennifer Smith Richards is a reporter for ProPublica pursuing stories about abuses by powerful government institutions and private businesses throughout the Midwest.