Author Bios

Ashley Dawson is a Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York, and a Visiting Distinguished Professor at Barnard College.

Jaime is a YES! reporting intern. He writes about racial justice, education and economics. Follow him on Twitter: @jajamesalfaro.

Liz Wolfe is a Young Voices advocate and senior at the College of William & Mary.

Topher Sanders is a reporter at ProPublica covering railroad safety. Previously he covered race, inequality and the justice system.

Hamza Hamouchene is a London-based Algerian campaigner, writer, researcher, and a founding member of Algeria Solidarity Campaign (ASC), and Environmental Justice North Africa (EJNA).

Kareem Faraj is a contributor to Foreign Policy in Focus.

Erik Mears is a teacher and veteran who lives in Queens, New York.

John Marciano is Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Cortland and the author of The American War in Vietnam: Crime or Commemoration? (Monthly Review Press, …

Andrew Cornell is an educator and organizer currently serving as visiting assistant professor of American studies at Williams College. He is the author of Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in …