Author Bios

Lindsay Fendt is a contributor to Mongabay.

Lani Cupchoy wrote this article for YES! Magazine. She is vice president of the Montebello Unified School District Board of Education and teaches Chicana/o Studies at California State University, Los …

Shontavia Johnson is a professor of intellectual property law at Drake University.

Bella Week is a first generation Australian currently living in the United States. Before starting at Hampshire College, Bella organized around queer justice in Los Angeles. She spent this …

Immanuel Ness is the author of Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class (Pluto 2016). He is on the faculty of political science at Brooklyn College, City University of New …

Raymond Hogler teaches labor and employment relations at Colorado State University. After earning his Ph.D. and J.D. degrees at the University of Colorado, he taught at Pennsylvania State University …

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.