Author Bios

Sherry Wolf is a contributor to Socialist Worker. 

Samuel G. Freedman, a journalism professor at Columbia University and former columnist for The New York Times, is the author of books including Breaking The Line: The Season in Black College …

Christy M. Gamble is director of health policy and legislative affairs at the Black Women's Health Imperative and a Public Voices fellow at The OpEd Project.

Ryan de Laureal is a writer, editor, and musician who lives in the Pacific Northwest.

John Jonik is a magazine and political cartoonist living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His magazine work has appeared over the years in The New York Times, National Lampoon, Audubon, The …

Chloe Farand is a freelance journalist covering the environment. Follow her on Twitter: @ChloeFarand.

Deniz Yeter is a freelance journalist and Kurdish immigrant born an Ausländer in Berlin. Currently, they live in the US with their wife. Email them at: [email protected]. Follow them …

David M. Shapiro is the director of appeals for the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center and a clinical assistant professor of law at Pritzker Northwestern School of Law, Chicago. He …

Jason Resendez is executive director of Latinos Against Alzheimer's, a network of Us Against Alzheimer's, and a participant of theAllies Reaching for Community Health Equity Public Voices Fellowship withThe OpEd Project.

Rebekah Ward is an Atlanta-based scientist.