Author Bios

Keri Leigh Merritt is an independent historian in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the author of Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South. Follow her on Twitter: …

Shane Johnson is a contributor to Socialist Worker.

Elizabeth Lalasz is a member of the International Socialist Organization and a registered nurse at a public hospital in Chicago. She is also a steward and bargaining team member …

Sara Swann joined the Center for Responsive Politics as a reporting intern in May 2017 after finishing her junior year at Syracuse University. At SU, Sara is majoring in …

Blake Dodge is an intern for the Center for Public Integrity's Business of Politics reporting team and a rising senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. …

Debbie Bookchin is an author, award-winning journalist and co-editor of The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy (Verso, 2014), a collection of essays by Murray Bookchin.

Charles Holm is a contributor to Socialist Worker.

Doran Larson is a professor of literature and creative writing and director of jurisprudence, law and justice studies at Hamilton College. 

Tre Kwon is a union nurse in New York City and editor for Left Voice. Twitter: @Tre_Kwon.

Juan Cruz Ferre is a Ph.D. student in Sociology at CUNY, where he studies the labor movement in Argentina, and is an editor for Left Voice.