Author Bios

Raymond Williams, 42, is serving a sentence of life without parole under Washington state's three strikes law. He is co-founder of the State Raised Working Group, a group of …

Josh Cowen is a professor of education policy at Michigan State University. He has been studying vouchers and other school choice initiatives since 2005.  

Rebecca Alpert is a Reconstructionist Rabbi and Professor Emerita of Religion at Temple University.

Abdelrahman ElGendy is an Egyptian writer and journalist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is a Dietrich Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh's Nonfiction Writing MFA, a Heinz Fellow at …

Phil Hirschkorn has covered presidential politics and attended conventions since 1992. He was a political science major at Duke University.

Journalist and poet, his first poetry book A Black Cloud at the End of the Line was published in Arabic in 2016. Abu Sneineh holds a degree in Law …

Ashleigh Maciolek is a Policy Associate in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice. Before joining the Brennan Center, Ashleigh was a Research Associate at the Center …

Core Fellow of Religious Studies and International Affairs, Seton Hall University.

Assistant Professor of History, University of Tennessee.

Amena al-Ashkar is a Palestinian journalist and refugee living in Lebanon.