Author Bios

Ruby Irene Pratka is a freelance wordsmith based in Montreal... for now. She speaks English, French, Russian, and some Haitian Creole. Her work has taken her around her adoptive …

Vijay Das is a Washington-based essayist and policy advocate who writes on social, economic and criminal legal issues. Follow him on Twitter: @vijdas.

Rural America In These Times is a division of In These Times. This blog's mission is to provide the public service of helping make the issues that rural America is …

Frederick Kuo is a published writer based in San Francisco, California. His work has been published in Quartz, the San Francisco Examiner, Citymetric, Asia Times and many more. His …

Meghan Duffy is an aquatic and disease ecologist.

Sandy Grande is a professor of education at Connecticut College, where she is also the director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity. She is …

​Julie Ciccolini is a research and data analyst in the Special Litigation Unit at the Legal Aid Society where she manages the Cop Accountability Project in support of greater police transparency …

Martin Winiecki is the global coordinator of partnerships at the Tamera Peace Research and Education Center in Portugal.

Dean Spade is the author of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the next). His latest book is Love in a F*cked Up World: How to Build …

Nikki Williams is a contributor to Socialist Worker.