Author Bios

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.

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.