Author Bios

Elizabeth Hlavinka writes for Salon.

Emilio Leanza is a journalist based in Madison, Wisconsin.

Russell Payne is a staff reporter for Salon.

Eyad Zeid is the owner of Nabala Cafe in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago.

I.B. Peaceful is the pseudonym of a writer incarcerated in Illinois's Stateville Correctional Center. He chose to use a pen name due to concerns about retaliation.

Eli Sanders is a contributor at ProPublica. Sanders won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing and is a recent law school graduate.

Alex Galbraith is a writer and editor based in New Orleans.

Maryam Alaniz is a socialist journalist, activist and PhD student living in New York City. She is an editor for the international section of Left Voice. Follow her on …

Tony Schick is an investigative editor and reporter at OPB. Schick previously worked as the web editor for Investigative Reporters and Editors, a journalism nonprofit based in Columbia, Missouri. …

Cami Ferrell is a bilingual video reporter for Environmental Health Sciences based in Houston, Texas. Ferrell primarily reports on the petrochemical buildout in the Texas Gulf Coast.