Author Bios

Sean Orr is a UPS package car driver and elected shop steward in Teamsters Local 705 in Chicago.

Jonathan F. Harris is an associate professor of law at LMU Loyola Law School Los Angeles and a fellow of the Student Borrower Protection Center and the University of …

Danny Shaw is a professor of South American and Caribbean Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the senior research fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. …

Kwolanne Felix is a writer and an advocate of gender equality and the environment. She recently graduated from Columbia University and studied history, with research interests in the African …

Aina Marzia is a 16-year-old independent journalist based in El Paso, Texas. A multi-lingual cricket fan and avid Twitter user, her journalistic work has appeared in The Austin Chronicle, …

Johanna Wald is a writer/researcher and former director of strategic planning at the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School.

Zach Despart is a politics reporter for The Texas Tribune. He investigates power — who wields it, how and to what ends — through the lens of Texas government. He …

Joyce Kendrick is the Southwest Ohio co-leader of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. She lives in Middletown, Ohio.

Julia Luz Betancourt is a Puerto Rican writer, journalist and mutual aid organizer based in New York.

Taylor Riley is a public health researcher and organizer with Defend the Defund in Seattle.