Author Bios

Nancy MacLean is the award-winning author of Behind the Mask of Chivalry (a New York Times ‘noteworthy’ book of the year) and Freedom is Not Enough, which was called …

Ricardo Vaz is a contributor to Investig’Action.

Janet Cherry is a human rights and social justice activist and academic at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. She is also a historian and trainer …

Sabeen Ahmed is a PhD student in the Department of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. She is interested in social and political philosophy and critical phenomenology. She is currently working …

Eliana Horn is an activist, organizer and law student at CUNY School of Law with a particular focus on gentrification, policing and working toward prison abolition. Eliana is a …

Jimmy Pasch is the West Regional Organizer at Jewish Voice for Peace.

Celisa Calacal is a junior writing fellow for AlterNet. She is a senior journalism major and legal studies minor at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. Previously she worked …

Isabel Esterman is a contributor to Mongabay. 

Emile Suotonye DeWeaver is a formerly incarcerated activist, widely published essayist, owner of Re:Frame LLC, and a 2022 Soros Justice Fellow. California’s Governor Brown commuted his life sentence after 21 …

Ted Hamilton is a writer and co-founder of the Climate Defense Project, a nonprofit organization that provides legal support to the climate movement.