Author Bios

Nadia B. Ahmad is a 2020 DNC national delegate from Orlando, Florida. She is a law professor and the co-founder of Muslim Delegates and Allies Coalition.

Avi Steinberg is currently at work on a biography of the writer and radical organizer, Grace Paley.

Jennifer Lee is an Associate Professor of Law at Temple University. She directs the Social Justice Lawyering Clinic at the Sheller Center for Social Justice, where she works with …

Thomas Hummel is a member of the Tempest Collective living in New York City.

Jesse Coburn is a reporter at ProPublica. He joined the newsroom in 2024 after three years as an investigative reporter at Streetsblog NYC. His series there on the black …

Torsheta Jackson is the Mississippi Free Press’s award-winning education-equity reporter, in partnership with Report for America. She is passionate about telling the unique and personal stories of the people, places and …

Patricia M. DeMarco, Ph.D., is a Pittsburgh-based author and environmental policy expert with a doctorate in Biology from the University of Pittsburgh.

Archbishop Marcia Dinkins is the founder and executive director of the Black Appalachian Coalition and Black Women for Change in Ohio.

Shahad Ali is an English literature student and writer from Gaza.

Ursula Wolfe-Rocca is a high school social studies teacher in Portland, Oregon.