Author Bios

Josh Cowen is a professor of education policy at Michigan State University and a visiting senior fellow at the Education Law Center. His new book, The Privateers: How Billionaires …

Marisol Cortez writes across genre about place and power for all the borderwalking weirdos out there. She is executive editor of Deceleration (deceleration.news), an online journal based in South …

Gautama Mehta is the the 2024-2025 Grist environmental justice reporting fellow.

Emily Jones covers climate change and climate solutions as part of a partnership between WABE and Grist. She previously covered the Georgia coast and hosted “Morning Edition” for Georgia …

Rohini J. Haar is faculty in the Epidemiology Division of the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.

Khidir Dalouk is an assistant professor of medicine at Oregon Health & Science University.

Debarati Guha Sapir is a professor of public health at Université catholique de Louvain.

Blake Erhardt-Ohren is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley.

Sarah Elizabeth Scales is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Nebraska Medical Center's Department of Environmental, Occupational, and Agricultural Health.

Kim Krisberg is a contributing writer for Public Health Watch who has covered public health policy and science for two decades.