Author Bios

Rachel West is a senior policy analyst at the Center for American Progress's Poverty to Prosperity Program.

Samayia Taylor is a freshman political science major at Howard University and an intern at CODEPINK's Washington, DC office. Read other articles by Samayia, or visit Samayia's website.

Charlotte Dingle is a freelance journalist, fine art tutor and contributor to Occupy.com.

Hilda Lloréns teaches anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Rhode Island. She is the author of Imaging the Great Puerto Rican Family: Framing Nation, Race, …

Marisol LeBrón is associate professor in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is author of Against Muerto Rico: Lessons from the Verano Boricua (Editora …

Tamar Manasseh is the founder and president of Mothers Against Senseless Killings (MASK). She is a lifelong resident of Chicago's South Side. She is the mother of a daughter, …

Rob Percival is the founder of the Charter for Animal Compassion, a nonprofit that advocates for interspecies empathy. 

Kit Norton, a recent magna cum laude graduate from Emerson College's School of Journalism, was born and raised in Vermont. Kit lived for extended periods in Switzerland and Spain …

Wilfred Codrington III is a Spitzer fellow and counsel at the Brennan Center's Democracy Program.

Mònica Clua-Losada is Associate Professor in Global Political Economy at the Department of Political Science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She is an executive board member …