Author Bios

Robert Grillo is the director of Free from Harm, which he founded in 2009 to advocate on behalf of farmed animals and to bring awareness to how animal agriculture is connected to all other forms of …

 Traci Yoder is the director of research and education for National Lawyers Guild. 

Aly Chu is a production intern at KCTS 9 and a freshman at the University of Washington. Currently a contributor at the university's newspaper, The Daily, she enjoys visual …

Annamarya Scaccia is an award-winning freelance journalist who reports on immigration, public health, disabilities and civil liberties. Her work has appeared in the Austin Chronicle, New York Daily News, …

Marianne Hirsch is a Professor of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at Columbia University and a public voices fellow with The OpEd Project.

Kate Doyle Griffiths is a member of the National Organizing Committee for the International Women's Strike US.

Magally A. Miranda Alcázar is a Chau Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Pomona College, and an activist working at the intersection of gender, race, labor and technological disruption.

Patricia MacCorquodale is a sociologist in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where she teaches and studies gender in work and …

Ivy Olesen is an editorial assistant in AlterNet's office in Berkeley, California.

 Meagan Gunkel is the Title X administrator of Cedar River Clinics in Washington State.