Author Bios

Laura Kiesel is a freelance writer living in the Boston area whose articles have appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, Salon, Vice, and others.

Pamela Jacquelin-Andersen is a contributor to Intercontinental Cry.

Kevin Carty is a reporter and researcher at the Open Markets Institute. 

Barry Lynn is executive director at the Open Markets Institute. 

Lauren Sudeall Lucas is an associate professor of law and faculty director at the Center for Access to Justice at Georgia State University.

Jodi Frances Abbott is an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Boston University. 

Janina Pescinski is a junior research fellow at the United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility. Her research takes an interdisciplinary approach to questions of migration and human …

Hannah Dreier is a national reporter at The Washington Post. She previously worked at ProPublica, where she won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for a year-long series …

Michael Tanglis is a researcher with Public Citizen's Congress Watch division.

Sara Woods is a member of Shoal Collective, a newly-formed cooperative of independent writers and researchers writing for social justice and a world beyond capitalism.