Author Bios

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

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

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.

Susan Wood is a contributor at openDemocracy.

David B. Feldman is a Ph.D. student in Sociology at the University of California Santa Barbara. Email him: [email protected].

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

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

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 …

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

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 …