Author Bios

Khaled A. Beydoun is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Detroit Mercy and the author of the forthcoming Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear (University of …

Amy Faith Ho, MD, is an emergency physician, published writer and national speaker on issues pertaining to health care and health policy, with work featured in Forbes, Chicago Tribune, …

Dharna Noor is a producer at the Real News Network, an independent news organization based in Baltimore. You can find her on Twitter @dharnanoor.

Giovanni Ortolani is a multimedia journalist and documentary maker specialising in science, sustainability, technology and environment. He is a United Nations Foundation press fellow and has been shortlisted for …

Kathleen McClellan is the deputy director at WHISPeR.

Nancy Gallagher is interim director at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland and a senior research scholar at the School of Public Policy at the University of …

Liz Posner is a managing editor at AlterNet. Her work has appeared on Forbes, Bust, Bustle, Refinery29 and elsewhere. Follow her on Twitter: @elizpos.

Hannah Gelder is a community organizer for economic justice for ONENorthside in Chicago, Illinois.

Julia Conley is a staff writer for Common Dreams.

Jennifer Horney is an associate professor of epidemiology and biostatictics at the Texas A&M University.