Author Bios

Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond is associate professor emerita at the University of California, San Diego. Her forthcoming memoir, Home Sick, probes caregiving, dying, the medical-industrial complex, Islamophobia and the commodification of (human and nonhuman) animals. 

Mazaska Talks is an indigenous-led grassroots campaign to defund the companies building DAPL and all four tar sands crude oil pipelines proposed out of Canada: Keystone XL, Kinder Morgan's …

Sarah Garland is the executive editor of The Hechinger Report. She started out in journalism reporting on murders and mayhem in New York City for New York Newsday and …

Sara Ahmed is a feminist writer, scholar and activist. She is the author of Willful Subjects, On Being Included, The Promise of Happiness and Queer Phenomenology, all also published …

Linda Hodges heads the Border Project for the Samuel Lawrence Foundation, an organization dedicated to philanthropy, reform and community engagement in San Diego and around the world. She is …

Asraa Mustufa is the digital editor at The Chicago Reporter. Email her: [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter: @AsraaReports.

Jay O'Hara is a Quaker and co-founder of the Climate Disobedience Center. Most recently he was on the organizing team for the #ShutItDown tar sands valve-turning action in October 2016.

Vanessa Fabien is a presidential postdoctoral fellow in Africana Studies at Brown University. She is a fellow with the Public Voices Greenhouse through The OpEd Project.

Bruce Goldstein, an attorney, is president of Farmworker Justice, a national advocacy organization for farmworkers based in Washington, DC.

Angela McRobbie is Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths College, London, and the author of Be Creative: Making a Living in the New Culture Industries (Polity Press 2015).