Author Bios

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 …

Rebekah is a writer based in Durham, North Carolina. Previously she was an inaugural Frances Ellen Watkins Harper editorial fellow at The 19th. She was also a writer at …

Taryn Fivek is speaking with people across the country during the 2016 campaign season. Follow her project at noplatform.org or Twitter at @fivek.

Michele Oberholtzer is a writer, activist, engineer and entrepreneur. She is the founder of The Tricycle Collective and Bring-a-Ling bicycle bells.

Sheila Mulrooney Eldred writes about health and fitness for a variety of publications. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Outside.com, Discovery News, Pacific Standard and Runner’s World, among others. She's a graduate …