Author Bios

Clare Church is a freelance journalist and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Political Inquiry. She can be found on Twitter: @clarechurch.

Ryan Birol graduated from Florida State University with a Bachelor's in international affairs. He spent a year in Austin resettling refugees into the greater Central Texas area. He believes …

Alex Jacobs is a graduate of Northwestern University Law School where he was president of the American Constitution Society and served as senior editor on the Northwestern Journal of …

Darryl Walker Jr. recently graduated with a Master of Arts degree in Sociology and Anthropology from Northeastern University. He has conducted ethnographic research on Neighborhood Crime Watch groups in …

Amber York is an organizer with Michigan United and a mother of two school-age children in Detroit. She has volunteered extensively in Detroit and overseas with a focus on …

Lorraine Forte is the executive editor of The Chicago Reporter. Email her: [email protected].

Kai Huschke is executive director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF). He has been with CELDF for 13 years, helping others build skills and confidence in achieving …

Frederick Knight is an associate professor of history at Morehouse College.

Jason Renard Walker is a prisoner in Texas. To generate awareness of slave labor in Texas prisons, he helped to design these T-shirts and hoodies.

Desiree Kane is a Miwok descendant and multimedia journalist focused on producing stories with a conscience at the intersection of Indigenous peoples and the environment. Follow Desiree on Bluesky.