Author Bios

Paul Shannon is program associate at the American Friends Service Committee in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a member of the national coordinating committee for the People's Budget Campaign. 

Cole A. Turner is a graduate of Swarthmore College and a young voices advocate. He currently resides in Chicago, where he works in HR technology.

Jacqueline Bediako is a writer, teacher and activist currently living in Brooklyn, New York. Her work focuses on race, politics, immigration and education. 

Nancy E. Landrum is a professor of Sustainable Business Management at Loyola University Chicago.

Nichola Torbett is the founding director of Seminary of the Street and a lay leader at First Congregational Church of Oakland.

Erin Banks Rusby is an intern at Earth Island Journal. A transplant from the greater Seattle area to the San Francisco peninsula, Erin works with volunteers on projects to …

Adriann Barboa is a Chicana, native New Mexican, born and raised in Albuquerque, where she is a single mother of two. She is the field director for Strong Families …

Sunil Bhatia is a professor at Connecticut College and a fellow with the Public Voices Greenhouse through The OpEd Project. He is the author of American Karma: Race, Culture, and Identity in …

Miriam Ticktin is associate professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research and author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics …

Rosa Libre helps run the Bronx Social Center, a radical volunteer-run community space in the South Bronx which serves as a hub for building collective working-class power in the …