Author Bios

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.

Susan Williams is a senior research fellow in the School of Advanced Study at the University of London, Institute of Commonwealth Studies.

Lucas Dacis is an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley. 

Amy Lieberman is a freelance investigative journalist based in New York City. Her work has been published in the Guardian, Slate, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic and more. …

Lisa Barritt-Eyles is a sessional academic at the University of Newcastle. 

Noura Khouri is a Palestinian in the diaspora from the Bay Area and has worked for the past two decades as a human rights activist, campaign strategist and a …