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Rebecca Wood

Rebecca Wood is a stay-at-home mom and advocate living in Virginia.
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Valarie Blake

Valarie Blake is an associate professor of health law at West Virginia University.
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Michelle Truong

Michelle Truong is a program assistant at the International Women's Health Coalition and works on the Learning, Monitoring, and Evaluation team to bolster evidence-based advocacy and programming.
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Susan Wood

Susan Wood is a contributor at openDemocracy.
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Ashley Dayer

Ashley Dayer is assistant professor of fish and wildlife conservation at Virginia Tech.
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Seth Lutter

Seth Lutter is a master's student at Virginia Tech.
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Sylvia Chi

Sylvia Chi is an attorney and member of Defenders of Mother Earth-Huichin, an indigenous-led, Oakland-based grassroots coalition following the call from Standing Rock to divest from banks that fund …
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Irene Tung

Irene Tung is a senior policy researcher with the National Employment Law Project.
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Jamila Michener

Jamila Michener is an assistant professor at Cornell University. She studies poverty, public policy, political participation and race. She is currently finishing a book titled Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism …