Author Bios

Lucas Waldron is ProPublica’s social visuals and graphics producer. Waldron is a motion graphics journalist focused on storytelling across social media platforms. His work has previously been published by …

Hannah Leibson is an intern at American Progress.

Basav Sen directs the Climate Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. 

Chris Brooks is a staff writer and organizer at Labor Notes.

Nadim Mirshak is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on the political sociology of education, social movements and critical pedagogy, and state-civil society relations …

Linda Herrera, a social anthropologist, is professor in the department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and director of the Global Studies …

Cynthia Prescott is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Dakota.

Karen Kunz is an an associate professor of Public Administration at West Virginia University.

Jena Martin is a professor of Law at West Virginia University.

Renée Watson is an author, educator and activist. Her young adult novel, Piecing Me Together, received a Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award. She is the founder of …