Author Bios

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 …

Matika Wilbur is a visual storyteller from the Swinomish and Tulalip tribes and creator of Project 562. She has spent five years on the road aiming to photograph over …

Erin Glasco is a librarian and archivist based in Chicago, Illinois.

Debbie Southorn is an organizer with the American Friends Service Committee in Chicago, where she supports youth-led efforts to divest from policing and end surveillance. She is a founding …