Author Bios

Deonna Anderson is a freelance reporter based in Oregon. She was raised in Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in Next City, The Marshall Project and Vice's Motherboard. 

Jessica Forden is a program associate at the Roosevelt Institute, where she works on the 21st Century Economy and Economic Inclusion programs. Jessica assists with research and projects on …

Gillian Russom is a high school teacher and member of United Teachers Los Angeles.

Janice Cantieri is a journalist who writes about Indigenous and environmental issues. As a Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellow, she spent a year living in the Central Pacific island …

Taylor Link is an assistant editor at Salon. You can find him on Twitter at @taylorlink_

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (she/they)  is a nonbinary femme autistic disabled writer, space creator and disability and transformative justice movement worker of Burgher and Tamil Sri Lankan, Irish and Galician/Roma …

Laura Gabby is a carpenter and elected delegate in Carpenters Local 157.

Alison Bell is a Senior Policy Analyst in the Housing Policy Division. She joined the Center after four years as Executive Director of the Baltimore Regional Housing Partnership (BRHP), …

Joe Watson is a researcher for the American Friends Service Committee in Arizona, which aims to reduce the size and scope of the criminal punishment system.

Anna-Catherine Brigida is a freelance journalist covering immigration, human rights and social issues in Latin America. She has reported from Mexico, El Salvador and Guatemala, among other countries, and …