Author Bios

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.

Paul Buchheit is an advocate for social and economic justice. His essays, videos and poems can be found at You Deserve Facts. He has contributed for several years to …

Mary Fish is currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree at Northwestern Oklahoma State University and has completed two Associate degrees, a medical coding specialist certificate, and is enrolled in a …