Author Bios

Eman Abdelhadi is an academic, activist and writer who thinks at the intersection of gender, sexuality, religion and politics. She is an assistant professor and sociologist at the University of …

Thor Benson is a staff writer for Common Dreams.

Laurie Udesky is an award-winning journalist with more than 25 years of reporting for print, online, audio and multimedia platforms.

Joanne Haner is a reporting intern at OpenSecrets.

Ashjan Ajour is a Palestinian scholar currently residing in the United Kingdom and the author of Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes: Revolutionary Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body.

Wajd Beshara is a Palestinian woman from Jerusalem. She has a sociology degree from Durham University and did a master’s of science in digital sociology at the University of …

Nasir Anthony Montalvo is an award-winning transdisciplinary artist; and founder of Kansas City’s abolitionist, Black-queer community archive, {B/qKC}. Originally from Kissimmee, Florida, Montalvo now resides in Missouri as part-time …

Jack Ross is a journalist in Los Angeles. 

Joshua Fechter is the Dallas-based urban affairs reporter for The Texas Tribune, covering policy — including housing affordability, housing and property taxes, evictions, policing and transportation — and politics …

Heba Gowayed is an associate professor of sociology at CUNY Hunter College and Graduate Center. Her award-winning book Refuge takes readers into the lives of displaced Syrians who sought …