Author Bios

Shailly Gupta Barnes is the policy director of the Kairos Center for Rights, Religions and Social Justice and the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. She has a background in …

Maritza Perez Medina is the director of federal affairs for Drug Policy Action.

Shondiin Silversmith is an award-winning Native journalist based on the Navajo Nation. Silversmith has covered Indigenous communities for more than 10 years, and covers Arizona's 22 federally recognized sovereign …

Maria Montanez is a fellow with Building Freedom Ohio, which is a part of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative.

Faith Crittenden, MD, MPH, is a Public Voices fellow with The OpEd Project and The National Black Child Developmental Institute. She is also a pediatric resident and incoming pediatric endocrinology fellow …

Brett Kelman, correspondent, joined KFF Health News after 15 years of reporting at three newspapers in the USA Today Network. Most recently he covered health care, the opioid crisis, …

Molly Castle Work, correspondent, covers health care in California. She has reported on a range of topics including hospital charity care, crisis pregnancy centers, and hospital lawsuits against indebted …

Syris Valentine is the 2024-2025 Grist climate solutions reporting fellow.

Caitlyn Clark is a national organizer at Essential Workers for Democracy, an organization dedicated to rank-and-file member education and empowerment for workers in grocery, meatpacking, and retail.

Ana María Morales is a writer, researcher and activist from Quito. She is part of La Laboratoria and editor of Revista Amazonas, which circulates in Abya Yala territories.