Author Bios

Julie Bogen is an audience engagement editor at The 19th.

Eliza Sweren-Becker serves as senior counsel in the Voting Rights & Elections Program at the Brennan Center for Justice. She litigates voting rights cases, counsels lawmakers and administrators on …

Lisa Ko is the author of the novel Memory Piece and the nationally best-selling novel The Leavers, which was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. Her writing has appeared in Best …

Juana Vera Delgado is a Peruvian researcher and activist, presently working as senior adviser on gender and environmental justice at the Global Forest Coalition. She has over 30 years …

Chithira Vijayakumar is a writer and researcher who works at the intersection of environmental justice, gender and technology. They are currently the communications coordinator of the Global Forest Coalition.

Emma is the domestic outreach and research assistant at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

Kayla Guo is an Austin-based general assignment reporter. She previously covered the U.S. Congress for The New York Times as a reporting fellow based in Washington, D.C. Kayla has also …

Kari Thompson is a contributor at Labor Notes.

Carolyn Elerding, Ph.D., is a freelance writer and editor based in Boulder, Colorado. A former academic, she has won awards for scholarly research and criticism as well as for …

Phoebe Petrovic is an investigative reporter on a two-year fellowship with ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network. She previously covered disinformation and democracy at Wisconsin Watch and was a 2022-2023 Law …