Author Bios

Peter Gosselin joined ProPublica as a contributing reporter to cover aging, having previously covered the US and global economies for, among others, the Los Angeles Times. During the first …

Russell Rickford is associate professor of history at Cornell University and the author of We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination. 

Danelle Morrow, from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, is an organization leader in Put People First PA. Put People First PA is a statewide organization in Pennsylvania aiming to change what is politically possible in the state …

Stephanie Woodard has covered Indian Country for more than 15 years for Native-owned Indian Country Today Media Network, as well as for In These Times and other national publications. The Fund for …

Dina El-Rifai is a policy fellow at the American Friends Service Committee.

Daniel Werst is a contributor to Socialist Worker. 

Niv M. Sultan joined the Center for Responsive Politics as a reporting intern in December 2016, having previously worked at a DC public charter school with City Year, an AmeriCorps …

Eli Friedman is assistant professor of international and comparative labor at Cornell University and the author of Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China.

Mary Barker has a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University (2004) and has published previously in El Pais, the leading newspaper of Spain (where Mary lived for many years), Salon, Religion …

Born and raised in Venezuela, Tal Abbady is a freelance writer based in Florida, where she's worked as a local newspaper reporter. Tal's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the LA Times, The BBC, Dame Magazine, Salon.com and other outlets.