Author Bios

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.

Hebh Jamal is a Palestinian American journalist from New York City now based in Germany. Subscribe to her Substack newsletter, The Diaspora Journal.