Author Bios

Basima Sisemore is a researcher at the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at the University of California, Berkeley.

Nikki Blazek is a contributor to Socialist Worker. 

Nicole Smith-Holt lives in the Minneapolis area. She is a mother of four and a financial aid specialist at Minneapolis Community and Technical College. A graduate of St. Catherine …

Ashley Jardina is an assistant professor of political science at Duke University.

Jessica Young is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Studies at American University. Her work broadly focuses on health in economically distressed and under-resourced communities. Dr. Young's …

Peter Edelman is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Public Policy and the faculty director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Georgetown University Law Center. He …

Kristina Khan is a mother, reproductive justice educator, board member of the Channing Murray Foundation and organizer with Build Programs Not Jails in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. 

Alka Kurian is a senior lecturer at the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington, Bothell.

Keisha N. Blain is an historian of the 20th century United States with broad interdisciplinary interests and specializations in African American History, the modern African Diaspora, and Women's and …

Debbie Prokopf is a union organizer in the Twin Cities and a member of OPEIU Local 12.