Author Bios

Rebecca Nagle is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and the author of By The Fire We Carry.

Claire Cleveland is a contributor to KFF Health News.

Abdullah Al-Arian is an associate professor of history at Georgetown University in Qatar. He is the author of Answering the Call: Popular Islamic Activism in Sadat’s Egypt and the …

Nicholas (Nick) Liu is a News Fellow at Salon. He grew up in Hong Kong, earned a B.A. in History at the University of Chicago, and began writing for …

Aya Nashwan is a writer for We Are Not Numbers, a youth storytelling project in Gaza.

Michael Levien is an associate professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University, where he is also affiliated with the Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute. He is writing a book …

Rabbi Linda Holtzman, ordained in 1979, is a Reconstructionist rabbi in Philadelphia. She is the leader of the Tikkun Olam Chavurah, a community dedicated to social justice locally and …

Jacob Orledge is a reporter based in Bismarck through ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network. He most recently worked for the Tioga Tribune in Williams County. North Dakota Monitor is part …

Eddie Velazquez is a journalist in upstate New York focused on covering organized labor, and the state’s housing and childhood lead poisoning crises. You can follow his work on …

Elizabeth Hlavinka writes for Salon.