Author Bios

Jane Latour is a contributor to The Indypendent. 

Orgul Demet Ozturk is an associate professor of economics at the University of South Carolina.

Jessica Juarez Scruggs is deputy director of policy for People's Action.

Laura Orlando is a member of the Rural America In These Times board of editors. She also teaches in the environmental health department at the Boston University School of …

Jessicah Pierre is the inequality media specialist at the Institute for Policy Studies.

Sharlyn Grace is a founding member of the Chicago Community Bond Fund (CCBF) and until recently, served as CCBF’s first executive director. As an attorney, she is committed to …

Matthew Rozsa is a breaking news writer for Salon. He holds a master's in history from Rutgers University-Newark and his work has appeared in Mic, Quartz and MSNBC.

Syd Roberts is a queer, nonbinary labor rights activist in North Carolina and a junior at Duke University. They are a Marxist and a prison abolitionist with interests in …

Kennett Werner joined the Center for Responsive Politics as a reporting intern in June 2017. Previously he covered business and technology in the New York bureau of Japan's largest …

Lilly Fowler is Crosscut's staff reporter. Before joining Crosscut, she worked as a producer for the national program Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, PBS. Lilly has also worked as a …