Author Bios

Cedric Lawson is a field manager at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. This commentary is adapted from a section he wrote for the Black Youth Project …

Mikhail Zinshteyn contributes regularly to The Atlantic. His writing about education has also appeared in FiveThirtyEight, The National Journal, CityLab and other outlets. Born in the Soviet Union, Zinshteyn …

Caroline is a proud native North Carolinian and NC State alumna. She works as a field organizer in the Triangle area on getting to 100 percent clean, renewable energy.

Corynne McSherry is the Legal Director at EFF, specializing in intellectual property, open access, and free speech issues. Her favorite cases involve defending online fair use, political expression, and …

Dedrick Asante-Muhammad is chief of equity and inclusion at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition and co-author of the report, "Ten Solutions to Bridge the Racial Wealth Divide.” Follow him …

Leila Nasr is a current MSc Human Rights candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She is also the lead editor of the LSE Human …

Elizabeth Segarra joined the SaveOnEnergy team in 2015. She graduated from Auburn University in 2014 with a degree in public relations. After working in marketing and advertising, Elizabeth discovered …

Janaé Bonsu is an activist, organizer and scholar, serving as the National Public Policy Chair of BYP100. Follow her on Twitter @janaebonsu.

Kirsten Han is a Singaporean freelance journalist whose work has appeared in Al Jazeera English, The Diplomat, The Daily Beast and Southeast Asia Globe. She had a brief moment …

Benjamin Selwyn is the Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex. He is the author of 'Workers, State and Development in Brazil' and 'The …