Author Bios

Olivia Paschal joined Facing South in August 2019 as a staff reporter. Her work focuses on democracy, money in politics, the census and agriculture. She previously worked at The …

William Moomaw is Professor Emeritus of International Environmental Policy at Tufts University. William Moomaw receives funding from the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation and the Dogwood Alliance. He is affiliated with the …

Marc Lamont Hill is an award-winning journalist and host of BET News, as well as a political contributor to CNN. He is a distinguished professor of African American studies …

Christopher Baum is a freelance writer and musician. His work has appeared in Socialist Worker and Jacobin. He lives in Brooklyn.

David Canton is associate professor of history and director of the Africana Studies Program at Connecticut College and the author of Raymond Pace Alexander: A New Negro Lawyer Fights for Civil Rights in Philadelphia. He is …

Natalie Sedacca is a solicitor specializing in civil liberties. Follow her on Twitter: @nataliesedacca. 

Barbara Milrod is a professor of psychiatry at the Medical College at Cornell University. she receives funding from The Clinical Translational Science Center at Weill Cornell Medical College and a …

Jefferson Morley is AlterNet's Washington correspondent. He is the author of  JFK and CIA: The Secret Assassination Files (Kindle) and Snow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten …

Susan Burton is the founder and executive director of A New Way of Life, a nonprofit that provides sober housing and other support to formerly incarcerated women. She is …

Cari Lynn is a journalist and the author of five books of nonfiction, including Becoming Ms. Burton with Susan Burton (The New Press), Leg the Spread and The Whistleblower …