Author Bios

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.

Nida Bajwa is a winter 2017 In These Times editorial intern.

Josh Cohen is a freelance writer in Seattle. He's written for The Nation, Pacific Standard, Vice and Next City. Follow him on Twitter: @jcohenwrites.

Benjamin Waltham Rivers is a member of the Visibility Collective in Oakland, California.

Melissa Cox is the Media and Education Coordinator for Other Worlds. She is a consultant for Human Pictures. She is a writer and filmmaker, leveraging the power of storytelling to tip the …