Author Bios

Melanie Barron, a doctoral student in geography at UT Knoxville, recently joined UCW staff as an organizer and researcher. 

Melissa Hellmann is a YES! Magazine reporting fellow and graduate of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. She has written for the Associated Press, TIME, The Christian Science Monitor, …

Sharon Smith, author of Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States, takes a closer look at the income statistics everyone is celebrating.

Tamika L. Butler, esq. is a proud Nebraskan living in Los Angeles as the executive director of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition. Previously, she was thedirector of social change strategies at Liberty Hill Foundation, where she oversaw the foundation's boys and …

Chloe Riley is a Chicago-based freelance writer. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Reader, the Guardian and DNAinfo.

Sarah Beller is a contributor to The Influence. 

Kathleen Neal Cleaver, who currently holds an appointment as a senior lecturer and research fellow at Emory University School of Law, has spent her life participating in the human …

Samantha Demby is an activist, writer and welding apprentice based in Brooklyn, New York. She has spent much of the past few years in Mexico and Central America, participating in collectives that support community land …

Abbie Mood is a freelance writer and editor based in Colorado who covers topics ranging from sports to social/environmental issues. She tries to spend as much time as possible …

Jacqueline Marcus' second collection of poems, Summer Rains, was recently published at Iris Press. Her first book of poems, Close to the Shore, was published by Michigan State University Press. Her essays/poems …