Author Bios

Paul Eselgroth is a contributor to Socialist Worker.

Luke Taylor is a freelance journalist based in Bogota, Colombia. He reports on Colombian politics and culture for leading written publications and radio broadcasters in Australia, Germany, the United …

Emmett Sanders is a formerly incarcerated researcher and writer who spent three months on an electronic monitor as a condition of his release after more than 22 years in …

Kimberly R. Kras is an assistant professor of criminology and justice studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. 

Lucy Goodchild van Hilten is a writing fellow for Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media Institute. She is a writer with a Master of …

Nicole Braun is an adjunct sociology professor in northern Michigan.

Linda Kramer Jenning is an independent journalist and past president of Journalism and Women Symposium. She often writes about women and politics.

Helen Flannery is an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). She is co-author with Josh Hoxie of the IPS report “Warehousing Wealth.”

Maxwell Schulman is a sophomore majoring in political science at Vanderbilt University. He is currently the opinion editor at Tennessee’s oldest newspaper, the Vanderbilt Hustler, an intern at Evan Guthrie Law Firm and …

Stephanie Farmer is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Roosevelt University.