Author Bios

Erin Mazursky is the founder and executive director of Rhize, a global community that spans five continents and connects grassroots social movements to the strategies, skills and resources they need …

Enayatullah Azad is the Media, Information & Advocacy Coordinator for the Norwegian Refugee Council.

Jasper Craven is a freelance reporter interested in overlooked policy changes at the local, state and federal levels. He has written for Vermont Digger, Vice, The Nation, and The Boston Globe, among other …

Sabine El Gemayel is a filmmaker and the producer of the documentary Generation Zapped.

Taleen Mardirossian is writing a collection of essays about women who carve out spaces for themselves in male-dominated worlds. She is pursuing a Masters in creative writing at Columbia …

Grace Haley is the Center for Responsive Politics's gender and race researcher, and studies the intersection of federal candidates' gender and race and how it affects campaign fundraising, among …

Stephen T. Young is an assistant professor of criminal justice and criminology at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia.

Brian Pitman is a lecturer at Clemson University and former professor in Maine. He is currently working with No Penobscot Jail Expansion in its fight against local jail expansion.

Smita Misra is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Junia Howell is a professor of sociology and a Rice University Kinder Institute scholar at the University of Pittsburgh.