Author Bios

Derek Seidman is a writer, researcher and historian living in Buffalo, New York. He is a regular contributor for Truthout and a contributing writer for LittleSis.

Ziva Branstetter is a senior editor for Reveal, overseeing coverage of immigration and the workplace. She serves on the board of Investigative Reporters and Editors and is a staunch …

Holly Krig is the director of Organizing for Moms United Against Violence and Incarceration and a cofounder of the Chicago Community Bond Fund.

Stephanie Savell is co-director of the Costs of War Project at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. An anthropologist, she has conducted research on security and civic engagement in …

Mara Pellittieri is the managing editor at TalkPoverty.org.

Claire Q. Evans is a doctoral student of political science at Vanderbilt University.

Elizabeth J. Zechmeister is the Cornelius Vanderbilt professor of political science and director of LAPOP at Vanderbilt University.

Roy Bourgeois founded SOA Watch, a nonviolent grassroots organization working to close the School of the Americas, and end state violence in the Americas.

Malcolm Tariq is a poet, a playwright and the author of Extended Play (Gertrude Press, 2017). He is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Michigan and lives …

Anne Sosin is the Global Health Initiative Program manager at Dartmouth College.