Author Bios

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 …

Akshaya Jha is assistant professor of economics and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University. 

Juan Carlos Dávila is a Democracy Now! correspondent.

Jennifer Denetdale (Diné), a citizen of the Navajo Nation, is an associate professor of American studies at the University of New Mexico. She serves as the chair of the …

Kayla Gahagan has been a writer for 16 years and worked for newspapers all over the country. She has reported for Reuters, Al Jazeera America, the Denver Post, Midwest Living, …

Gabrielle Thongs is an assistant lecturer in the geography department at the University of the West Indies: St. Augustine Campus.

Engy Abdelkader, J.D., LL.M., is a law professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law.