Author Bios

Robin LoBuglio (she/her) is a gameplay programmer who serves on the Organizing Committee for the Tender Claws Human Union and the steering committee for Game Workers of SoCal.

Iris Hinh is a Research Associate with the State Fiscal Policy team at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Colette Payne is an organizer, leader, student, mother and grandmother. Her passion is to educate families to build healthier communities. From 2014 to 2017, Colette was the coordinator of …

Suad Abdel Aziz is a law student at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. She is a member of the National Lawyers Guild Palestine Subcommittee. She is also …

Kwaneta Harris is an incarcerated mother of three, with a wish to hug her children.

Joaquín M. Lara Midkiff is a human rights commissioner for the City of Salem, Oregon. He is also a fellow at the MacMillan Center, researcher at the Peabody Museum, …

Lily Levine (she/her) is a reporter based in Los Angeles and New York. During her time at the University of Chicago, she covered the intersection between health, education, environmental …

Srijita is a Reporting Intern at OpenSecrets and a master's student at the Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, MO, where much of her time is spent in the Missourian …

David Trend is a professor at the University of California, Irvine, and the former editor of the journals Socialist Review and Afterimage. Honored as a Getty Scholar, his books …

An ex-evangelical writer, speaker and advocate, Chrissy Stroop is (with Lauren O’Neal) co-editor of the essay anthology Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church. A senior correspondent for Religion …