Author Bios

Rebecca Kling (she/her) is an educator, organizer, storyteller and advocate for social change. Kling served as the community storytelling advocate and director of education programming at the National Center …

Vanessa Ford (she/her) is an award-winning educator and author. Her children's book, Calvin, won the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Best Children’s Book. Ford was a classroom teacher for …

Sophia Lumsdaine is a first-year college student majoring in History and Political Science with double minors in Journalism and Spanish at George Fox University. After college she intends to …

Jo Kelcey is an assistant professor of education at the Lebanese America University who has written extensively on UNRWA’s education program.

Fida J. Adely is an associate professor at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is the author of Gendered …

Thea Renda Abu El-Haj is professor of education at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of Unsettled Belonging: Educating Palestinian American Youth after 9/11 and Elusive Justice: …

Verner Viisainen holds a Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Cambridge and a MEng in mechanical engineering from the University of Bristol. He previously worked for two years …

Simon Evans is deputy editor and policy editor at Carbon Brief. Simon covers climate and energy policy. He holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Bristol University and previously studied …

Justin Pearson is a senior attorney at the Institute for Justice in Arlington, Virginia.

Eman Ghanayem is a postdoctoral fellow in Indigenous studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Her work examines narratives of displacement, settlement and belonging in Palestine and Indigenous North …