Author Bios

Dana Blanchard is a veteran public school teacher, union organizer and socialist activist from the Bay Area.

Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez is a writer and lifelong learner. She specializes in topics that relate to sociology, health and parenting. Her work has appeared in Healthline, Yes! Magazine, WhattoExpect, For …

Amelia Adams is a contributor to Socialist Worker.

Eli Horowitz is a sports and social justice reporter, with a Master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. Follow him on Twitter: @CoachHorowitz13.

Rahila Gupta is a freelance journalist and writer. Her work has appeared in the Guardian and New Humanist among other papers and magazines. Her books include Enslaved: The New …

Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda is a queer, mixed-race writer, teacher and political organizer living between Berkeley, California, and Tokyo, Japan. She is currently completing her Ph.D. in the Department of East …

Beezer de Martelly is a white, queer graduate student in the ethnomusicology program at UC Berkeley where they also teach music courses. Their research explores representations of whiteness in …

Will Lambek is a translator and organizer with Migrant Justice. 

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 …