Author Bios

John F. Kowal is vice president of programs at the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law, where he is responsible for coordinating and …

Christina Tsao is an organizer with the Los Angeles chapter of Critical Resistance (CR), an organization dedicated to building a movement to abolish the prison industrial complex. Through CR-Los Angeles, Christina …

Diana Zuniga is based in Los Angeles and is the statewide coordinator for Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB), a coalition of 70 grassroots organizations that is reducing the number of people in prisons and jails, shrinking …

Avery White is a photographer based in New Orleans, Louisiana, where the unchecked power of oil companies also threatens the life and health of the community. Avery came to Standing Rock to bear witness …

Michael Merryman-Lotze is the director of the Middle East program for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). He coordinates AFSC’s Middle East focused advocacy and policy programming, working closely …

Olivia Anderson is an editorial intern at YES! Magazine. Follow her on Twitter: @0liviaranderson.  

Ameer Hasan Loggins is a Ph.D. candidate in African diaspora studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His research explores reality television as a social phenomenon and its effects on …

Amanda is a Durham, North Carolina-based freelance journalist. Learn more about her at amandaannabrams.com.

Chip Colwell is a lecturer on anthropology at the University of Colorado Denver. Colwell has consulted for Anthropological Research LLC, a firm that works with Native American tribes to …

Lourdes Cárdenas is an independent journalist based in El Paso, Texas, and a journalism professor at New Mexico State University. She usually covers stories related to immigration, drug trafficking …