Author Bios

Tess Raser is a public school teacher and organizer on Chicago's South Side.

Simone Chun is a researcher and activist focusing on inter-Korean relations and U.S. foreign policy in the Korean Peninsula. She has served as an assistant professor at Suffolk University, …

Yue Maggie Zhou is an assistant professor of strategy at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.

Jitu Brown is director of the Journey for Justice Alliance, a national grassroots organization focused on education equity, and a Global Racial Equity Fellow with the Atlantic Institute.

Justin De Senso is a lecturer of English at Penn State Berks, where he teaches courses on writing and hip-hop history. He is also an American studies Ph.D. candidate at …

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 …