Author Bios

Lawrence Vale is the Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lawrence Vale is a member of the National Low Income Housing Coalition.

Chisun Lee serves as counsel on the money in politics team in the Brennan Center's Democracy Program. Before returning in 2013 to the Brennan Center, where she previously served …

Gretchen Sager is a contributor to Socialist Worker. 

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.