Author Bios

Arn Pearson is CMD's General Counsel and Policy Advisor. He previously served as the Vice President for Policy and Litigation at Common Cause. Arn has worked for more than 20 years …

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 …