Author Bios

Danna Smith is the founder and executive director of Dogwood Alliance. For over 20 years, she has been at the forefront of forest protection in the U.S., leading hard-hitting …

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.