Author Bios

Jacqui Germain is a journalist and poet living in St. Louis, Missouri. She’s the author of Bittering the Wound, her debut poetry collection about the Ferguson Uprising.

J. Patrick Patterson is the Associate Editor at In These Times. He has previously worked as a politics editor, copy editor, fact-checker and reporter. His writing on economic policies and …

Carter Walker is a reporter for Votebeat in partnership with Spotlight PA. Contact Carter at [email protected].

Matthew Kish is a business reporter who covers the apparel and banking industries. He previously wrote for Business Insider and the Portland Business Journal. In 2017-18, he was a …

Agnel Philip is a data reporter at ProPublica.

Rob Davis is a reporter covering the Pacific Northwest for ProPublica.

Maddie Khaw is a journalist based in Portland, Oregon, and Boston, Massachusetts. She is currently finishing her undergraduate degree in Journalism at Emerson College in Boston, where she is …

Kristi E. Schwartz is a veteran business reporter with years of experience covering the electricity industry. [email protected]

Marin Scotten is a news and politics fellow at Salon.

Craig Mokhiber is an international human rights lawyer and former senior United Nations official. He left the UN in October 2023, penning a widely read letter that warned of …