Author Bios

Erica West is a contributor to Socialist Worker.

Peniel Ibe is policy fellow at the American Friends Service Committee. Her focus is on international development, humanitarian crisis management and public policy. She is an immigrant from Nigeria …

Ardalan Raghian is a freelance journalist and was at Standing Rock for several months during the resistance.

Hannah Norman is a freelance writer and photographer based in Washington, D.C.

Megan Janetsky is a reporting intern at the Center for Responsive Politics for Spring of 2018. She's a journalism senior at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass …

Fadi O. Al-Naji is a writer for We Are Not Numbers, an online publication for Palestinian youth in the Gaza Strip to tell their stories.

Susan Jaffe is a contributing writer on health policy and aging at Kaiser Health News.

Wendy Kozol is a professor of visual culture studies in the Department of Comparative American Studies at Oberlin College.

John Franklin is a professor of psychiatry, transplant surgery and medical humanities and bioethics at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, where he is a Public Voices …

Diane Dewar is an associate professor of health policy, management and behavior at the University at Albany, State University of New York.