Author Bios

Joannie Tremblay-Boire is an assistant professor at the Department of Public Management and Policy at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. 

nya Jabour is Regents Professor in the History Department and a past co-director of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Montana, where she has …

Sujana Gowni is a contributor to Speakout.

 Rachel Sullivan Robinson is an associate professor at the American University School of International Service.

Molly Rowan Leach is a specialist in the field of Restorative Justice and is Founder/Executive Producer of the popular webcast, Restorative Justice on The Rise. She is a media partner …

Ali A. Olomi is a writer and historian of the Middle East at the University of California, Irvine. 

Laila Rashidie is a Toronto-based Afghan-Muslim poet, teacher and peace activist. She has worked with Afghans for Peace (AFP) as an organizer before it was dissolved and then cofounded …

Seelai Popal is a US-based poet, writer and organizer with Afghans United for Justice, a grassroots initiative dedicated to fighting for a just Afghanistan free from war and occupation. …

Mark Tseng-Putterman is a writer, activist and scholar interested in Asian American social movements vis-à-vis the carceral state. He is a visiting scholar at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York …

Peter Moskowitz is a freelance journalist who has written for the Guardian, The New York Times, The New Republic, Wired, Slate, BuzzFeed and many others. A former staff writer …