Author Bios

Jas Chana is the communications director for the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), a nonprofit dedicated to defending intellectual freedom and the right to read. Twitter: @ncacensorship.

Maurice Rafael Magaña is an assistant professor of Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona.

Natascha Uhlmann is a writer and activist from Sonora, Mexico.

Lois Marie Gibbs is a former resident of the Love Canal community and founder of the Center for Health, Environment and Justice, a project of People's Action.

Kathleen B. Jones is professor emerita of Women's Studies at San Diego State University and Visiting Research Fellow at University of California, Davis, where she directs an NEH seminar …

Jon Else worked on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee staff in 1964 and 1965. He was series producer and cinematographer for Eyes on the Prize, and has produced and …

Frances Grahl is a Ph.D. student working on literature of migration to Europe. She is active in migrant solidarity and anticapitalist feminist struggles. She helps coordinate SOAS Goes To …

Allison McGillivray is traveling the country in a 1983 El Dorado motorhome, visiting communities of resistance and hospitality, and conducting oral histories for the Catholic Worker movement.

John W. Dower is professor emeritus of history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His many books include War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War and …