Author Bios

Kate Shea Baird lives in Barcelona, and works in advocacy for local democracy and decentralization. She tweets about political communication and Catalonia.

Derek Black is a professor of law at the University of South Carolina. 

Ese Olumhense is a multimedia journalist from New York City. She is an Ida B. Wells fellow at the Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute, and a graduate of …

Darrin W. Anderson, Sr., Ph.D., MS, is the deputy director of the New Jersey Partnership for Healthy Kidss and a participant of the Allies Reaching for Community Health Equity …

Aviva Aron-Dine is a senior fellow and senior counselor at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. From 2015 to 2017, she served as a senior counselor to the …

Adam Ramsay is the Co-Editor of openDemocracyUK and also works with Bright Green. Before, he was a full time campaigner with People & Planet. You can follow him at @adamramsay.

Peter Slavin is a freelance journalist and editor. He has been writing about Appalachia since 1995. He also writes about cities and Southeast Asia. He has been published by The …

Sally Nyakanyanga is a contributor to Inter Press Service.

John Ertl is a field mobilization specialist for the Amalgamated Transit Union.