Author Bios

Hilda Lloréns teaches anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Rhode Island. She is the author of Imaging the Great Puerto Rican Family: Framing Nation, Race, …

Marisol LeBrón is associate professor in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is author of Against Muerto Rico: Lessons from the Verano Boricua (Editora …

Tamar Manasseh is the founder and president of Mothers Against Senseless Killings (MASK). She is a lifelong resident of Chicago's South Side. She is the mother of a daughter, …

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 …