Author Bios

Wesley Tharpe is Senior Advisor for State Tax Policy on the State Fiscal Policy team of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. In this role, he leads the …

Eman Alhaj Ali is a Palestinian freelance journalist, writer, translator, and storyteller from Gaza. Her writings appeared on a variety of international and local websites, such as The New …

Sachi Kitajima Mulkey is the 2024-2025 Grist climate news reporting fellow.

Andrea Bossi is a New York-based writer who covers fashion, beauty, and culture. The Chicago-born journalist enjoys keeping up with the pulse of culture and revels in the ways …

Qassam Muaddi is a Palestinian journalist and writer who has covered Palestinian social, political and cultural developments in Arabic, French and English since 2014.

Sarah Abboud is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Chicago College of Nursing and a Public Voices Fellow at The OpEd Project.  

Lydia McFarlane is a reporter who has published stories in OpenSecrets, The Hill, Teen Vogue and elsewhere.

Mary Rambaran-Olm is a literary historian and public scholar. Her second book, Race in Early Medieval England will be out next year with coauthor Erik Wade. She has written …

Ambereen Dadabhoy is an associate professor of literature at Harvey Mudd College. She is the coauthor of Anti-Racist Shakespeare and the author of Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds.