Author Bios

Ramsin Canon is a former union and community organizer, and current labor, employment, civil rights and land use attorney practicing in Illinois and California. He lives in Chicago with …

Bernadette Demientieff is the executive director for the Gwich’in Steering Committee. She represents the Gwich'in nation from both sides of the border in the US and Canada. 

Feminista Jones is a social worker, sex-positive feminist writer, public speaker and community activist currently residing in Philadelphia. Her work centres on Black American culture, critical race theory, intersectionality, women's …

Noam Cohen is the author of The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball. Cohen covered the influence of the internet on …

Benjamin Madley is associate professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he focuses on Native America, the United States and genocide in world history. He …

Kathy Wilkes is an award-winning labor writer and editor, and a former union organizer, cofounder, officer, negotiator and communications director.

Michael Palmieri is the co-host of Left Out -- a monthly podcast that creates in-depth conversations with the most interesting political thinkers, heterodox economists and organizers on the Left.

Laurel Wales is deputy director of movement politics for People's Action.

Stephanie Basile is an organizer at The NewsGuild-Communications Workers of America.

The author works as a server in a restaurant. Ursula Buffay is a pseudonym.