Author Bios

Belle Chesler is a visual arts teacher in Beaverton, Oregon.

Patrisse Khan-Cullors is an artist, organizer and freedom fighter from Los Angeles, California. Co-founder of Black Lives Matter, she is also a performance artist, Fulbright scholar, popular public speaker …

asha bandele is the award-winning author of The Prisoner's Wife and several other works. Honored for her work in journalism and activism, asha is a mother, a former senior editor at …

Maximillian Alvarez is a columnist for The Baffler and dual-Ph.D. candidate in history and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. He also co-founded the Ann Arbor chapter of …

Madison Hardee is a contributor to Campaign for America's Future.

Peter Bakvis directs the Washington, DC, office of the International Trade Union Confederation, which represents 180 million workers in 162 countries.

Amy Siskind is a national spokesperson, writer and expert on helping women and girls advance and succeed. A former Wall Street executive, she is president and do-founder of The …

Alexandra Moore is a professor of Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies, Binghamton University, State University of New York.

Deshani Gunathilake is an advocate for Young Voices and a freelance writer who lives and works in Washington, DC. She writes about human rights and civil liberties and can be …

Katherine Sullivan is a researcher at ProPublica.