Author Bios

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 …

Terry Patten speaks and consults internationally as a community organizer, philosopher and teacher. He is the author of A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries. His website is www.terrypatten.com.

Donnie Killen is a child support specialist for the state of Illinois and vice president/executive steward of AFSCME Local 2600.

Rebekah Diamond, MD, is a resident physician in pediatrics. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Barry Alford taught in community colleges for more than 40 years.

Paula Andalo is a contributor at Kaiser Health News.