Author Bios

Thor Benson is a staff writer for Common Dreams.

Laurie Udesky is an award-winning journalist with more than 25 years of reporting for print, online, audio and multimedia platforms.

Joanne Haner is a reporting intern at OpenSecrets.

Ashjan Ajour is a Palestinian scholar currently residing in the United Kingdom and the author of Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes: Revolutionary Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body.

Wajd Beshara is a Palestinian woman from Jerusalem. She has a sociology degree from Durham University and did a master’s of science in digital sociology at the University of …

Nasir Anthony Montalvo is an award-winning transdisciplinary artist; and founder of Kansas City’s abolitionist, Black-queer community archive, {B/qKC}. Originally from Kissimmee, Florida, Montalvo now resides in Missouri as part-time …

Jack Ross is a journalist in Los Angeles. 

Joshua Fechter is the Dallas-based urban affairs reporter for The Texas Tribune, covering policy — including housing affordability, housing and property taxes, evictions, policing and transportation — and politics …

Heba Gowayed is an associate professor of sociology at CUNY Hunter College and Graduate Center. Her award-winning book Refuge takes readers into the lives of displaced Syrians who sought …

Timothy D. Lytton is Regents' Professor & Professor of Law at Georgia State University.