Author Bios

Celine McNicholas is labor counsel at the Economic Policy Institute and a core member of organization's Perkins Project on Worker Rights and Wages, a policy-response team that tracks the …

La Risa is a reporter for The Chicago Reporter.

Giulia McDonnell Nieto Del Rio is a rising senior at Williams College in Massachusetts. She has written and worked for the human rights organization Cultural Survival in Cambridge, Massachusetts, …

Aditi Katti is a Next Leader at the Institute for Policy Studies. 

Emma Kromm is an undergraduate at Harvard University majoring in social studies and an intern with the Institute for Southern Studies.

Andrea Armstrong is an associate professor of law at Loyola University New Orleans, College of Law. Her research focuses on the constitutional dimensions of prisons and jails, and she …

Lindsey Dillon is an assistant professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.   

Binta Baxter is an AlterNet contributor with a background in economic, environmental and social justice. Follow her on Twitter @BintaBaxter.

Curtis Johnson is a retired research scientist, freelance writer and activist. He has reported and written on the Gulf oil spill, western wildfires, the extinction and climate crisis, and …