Author Bios

Raquel Aldana is associate vice chancellor for academic diversity and a professor of law at the University of California, Davis.

Eileen Flanagan is the award-winning author of three books, most recently Renewable: One Woman's Search for Simplicity, Faithfulness, and Hope, the story of how she accidentally become a leader …

Sharon Strover is director of the Telecommunications and Information Policy Institute and a professor of communication at the University of Texas at Austin. 

Renee Lewis is a freelance reporter based in Washington State, previously with Al Jazeera English in Doha, Qatar, and Al Jazeera America in New York City. She lived and …

Miriam Boeri is an associate professor of sociology at Bentley University.

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 …