Author Bios

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). 

Eileen Markey is an investigative journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Wall Street Journal, National Catholic Reporter, America, Commonweal, and Killing the …

Arshad M. Khan is a former professor who has, over many years, written occasionally for the print and often for online media outlets. 

Bridget Broderick has been a socialist in the International Socialist Organization for more than 20 years. She has organized in Chicago around immigrant rights and against the criminal legal …