Author Bios

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 …

Donald Boesch is a professor of marine science at the University of Maryland. 

Derek Robertson is a graduate student at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a freelance journalist covering policy, activism and culture. Follow him on Twitter: @_gearloose.  

Matthew Vickery is a journalist and researcher covering conflict, human rights and workers' rights issues throughout the Middle East, as well as extensively in Israel and the occupied Palestinian …