Author Bios

Kayla DeVault is an Anishinaabe and enrolled Shawnee, living on the Navajo reservation. She currently works for the Navajo Nation Division of Transportation as a project civil engineer while studying …

Charlotte Cuthbertson is a contributor to Epoch Times.

Ryan Chikaraishi lives and works at the New York Public Library, and Ryan received a masters degree in history from City College. Some of Ryan's interests include mass incarceration, …

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.