Author Bios

Derek Denman is a writer and researcher focusing on the politics of prisons, policing and transformative justice.

Robert John holds an MA in restorative justice ministry. His writings are filtered through his lens of experiences in the school-to-prison pipeline, the juvenile justice system and the Illinois …

Jessica Kegu is an investigative producer for CBS News.

Sophie Chou is a data reporter at ProPublica. She uses statistics and data science to investigate stories. Before coming to ProPublica, she was a data journalist at Public Radio …

Colleen Scerpella is a contributor to the Center for Media and Democracy.

Georgia Jensen is the Henry Wallace Fellow working on the Inequality.org project.

Sierra Dickey is a writer, educator, and organizer based in western Massachusetts. She has covered women’s incarceration and the prison abolition movement for four years for outlets like The …

Rebecca L. Root is a multimedia journalist from the UK but based in Bangkok and reporting globally. She covers humanitarian aid, human rights, global health, development and climate, among …

Stephanie Armour is a senior correspondent at KFF Health News.

Charlie Markbreiter is the author of Gossip Girl Fanfic Novella (2022) and a PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center.