Author Bios

Claire Smrekar is an associate professor of public policy and education at Vanderbilt University. 

Michael Mullinax is a contributor to Socialist Worker. 

Camille White-Avian is a contributor to Socialist Worker.

Victoria Borneman is the Saul Landau fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies.

Margot Susca is a professorial lecturer at the American University School of Communication. 

Sammy Didonato is a Baltimore-based freelance video producer and member of Rebel Lens Bmore. His work on state violence in the US and abroad appears regularly at Unicorn Riot.

Katherine Ellison is co-author of ADHD: What Everyone Needs to Know, and author of The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes You Smarter. She is a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, public …

Carla Santos Skandier is co-manager of the climate and energy program at The Democracy Collaborative.

Mohammad, 25, is a graduate of the Islamic University of Gaza, where he studied English. He says he aspires to become "a voice for Palestine, expressing the people's hopes …

Sean Keith recently completed his second year at Northeastern University as a BA-MA combined history student with a minor in Chinese. His areas of academic interest are the US …