Author Bios

Lauren Burke is an Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity. She works on labor-led climate initiatives with the Labor Network for Sustainability. Previously, she was a worker organizer with UNITE …

Angelina Godoy is Helen H. Jackson Chair in Human Rights, and director of the Center for Human Rights, at the University of Washington.

David L. Rosen is the communications officer on regulatory affairs for Public Citizen and the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards.

Peter Gowan is a policy associate with The Next System Project at the Democracy Collaborative. Peter’s research focuses on housing, political economy and alternative models of ownership in both …

Fatema Ahmad is deputy director at the Muslim Justice League in Boston. She is a former biomedical engineer turned community organizer who is passionate about fighting the criminalization of marginalized communities. …

Kristen Sheets is a contributor to Socialist Worker.

Meghan Brophy is a third-year student at Barnard College, an undergraduate worker at Columbia University and an organizer with Student-Worker Solidarity (United Students Against Sweatshops Local 12).

Kevin Basl is a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War.

Andrea Flynn is a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, where she researches and writes about issues that impact women and families. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Republic, Cosmopolitan, …