Author Bios

Eryn Mathewson is a special correspondent for Making Contact.

Michelle Farber is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and is a long-time clinic defender and abortion provider. She is a nurse-midwife in Seattle, Washington.

Chanelle Gallant is an abolitionist feminist who has been fighting to free women’s sexuality from criminalization for over 25 years. She is a frontline organizer, writer, thinker, strategist and …

Jill Barshay is a contributing editor who writes the weekly “Proof Points” column about education research and data. Previously, she was the New York bureau chief for Marketplace, a …

Erin is a freelance writer living in the Kansas City area where she also works as a health insurance navigator for a community health center. Her work has been …

Wyatt Massey is a journalist covering social justice and religion. Follow him on Twitter: @News4Mass.

Khury Petersen-Smith is the Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies.

Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg is an independent journalist and founder of The Carceral Report. Follow her on Bluesky @elizabethweill.bsky.social and Instagram @elizabethweillgreenberg. 

Auditi Guha is the Northeast regional reporter for Rewire.News. She has uncovered corruption, injustice, discrimination and fielded death threats in her career from India to Boston. She most recently worked …

Deborah Coen is Professor of History and Chair of the Program in History of Science and Medicine, Yale University. Her research and teaching bring together the history of science and the …