Author Bios

Korydon Smith is a professor of architecture and associate director of global health equity at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.

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.