Author Bios

Erin Douglas was the climate reporter for The Texas Tribune from 2020 through 2023 where she covered the impacts of climate change, including extreme heat, drought and hurricanes. She …

Lenora Holum grew up in New York City and graduated from Swarthmore in 2016 with degrees in political science and Spanish.

Aaryan Morrison is a South African-American from Indiana. She is a graduate of Harvard College and a current master's student at the University of Oxford.

Javeria Salman is a staff writer at The Henchinger Report, and she reports and writes the Future of Learning newsletter. She covers K-12 education issues through the lens of …

Azhaar Amayreh is a contributor at Mondoweiss.

Michael is a food writer, recipe editor and educator based in his beloved New Jersey. After graduating from the Institute of Culinary Education in New York City, he worked …

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 …