Author Bios

Michael Pappas is a resident physician practicing family medicine in New York City. He can be contacted at [email protected].

Ciara Taylor is a founding member of the Dream Defenders and currently serves as the organization's Director of Political Consciousness.

Jonathan Hettleman is a contributor to the Brennan Center for Justice. 

Alexa Mencia is a journalist based in Chicago. She's completing her master's degree at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, specializing in social justice and investigative reporting. Follow her …

Brooke Anderson is an Oakland, California-based organizer and photojournalist. She has spent 20 years building movements for social, economic, racial and ecological justice. She is a proud union member …

Erika Almenara is an assistant professor at the University of Arkansas. Her research interests include 20th and 21st century Latin American cultural production, especially in the cases of subaltern/marginal …

Ivonne del Valle teaches colonial studies at UC Berkeley. Her research and teaching make connections between the past and the present which try to show the relevance of the …

Susana Draper is associate professor at the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. She is author of Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in Post-dictatorship Latin America (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012).

Jeffrey Lichtenstein is a longtime United Campus Workers member.

Jennifer Mercieca is an associate professor of communication and director of the Aggie Agora at Texas A&M University.