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Author Bios

Ilham Rawoot
Ilham Rawoot is a climate justice activist and writer based in Cape Town. She campaigns against corporate impunity in the extractive industry and has written for several international outlets, …

Mohammed El-Kurd
Mohammed El-Kurd is a writer and poet from Jerusalem, occupied Palestine. He is the Culture Editor at Mondoweiss.

Zachary Tashman
Zachary Tashman is a senior research and policy associate at Americans for Tax Fairness.

William Rice
William Rice is a senior writer at Americans for Tax Fairness.

Rebecca Kling
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
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
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
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
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
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: …