Author Bios

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 …

Catherine Weaver is associate professor of Public Affairs and co-director of Innovations for Peace and Development at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also a Public Voices Fellow with the Op-Ed Project.