Author Bios

Alice Adder's main areas of interest are the privatization of security, the military-industrial complex, expansion of the surveillance state and the militarization of police departments. Follow Alice on Twitter.

Holly Devon is a freelance writer living in New Orleans, where she is a master's student at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies.  She is a regular contributor …

Cedar Wilkie Gillette is a third-year law student at Vermont Law School studying environmental and human rights law. Gillette is also a tribal member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and …

Ralph Young is professor of history at Temple University. He is the author of Dissent: The History of an American Idea (NYU Press, 2015).

Christopher Petrella is a lecturer in American cultural studies at Bates College. His work explores the intersections of race, state and criminalization. He completed a Ph.D. in African diaspora …

Allen Thigpen is a third-year law student at Vanderbilt University Law School in Nashville, Tennessee. After graduation, Allen plans to move to New York City to begin his legal career. 

Jeffrey R. Sprague is professor of Special Education at the University of Oregon. Jeffrey R. Sprague receives funding from the US Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice to study …

Ivanna Salgado is a student at Denison University where she studies English literature and women and gender studies and has a concentration in narrative nonfiction writing.

Kiana Herold is a contributor to Intercontinental Cry Magazine.