Author Bios

Roberta Attanasio is an associate professor of biology at Georgia State University.

Pablo Vivanco is a contributor to teleSUR. 

Milen Mehari is a Next Leader at the Institute for Policy Studies, where she researches the criminalization of race and poverty.

The writer of this story is an independent journalist based in Istanbul who asked to file this story anonymously due to the current climate for journalists in Turkey.

Jacquelyn Miller is an activist from Washtenaw County, Michigan.

Christopher Machold is a Young Voices Advocate and recent graduate of Cornell College.

Grace Gámez, Ph.D., is a program associate at American Friends Service Committee-Arizona.

Peter Boghossian is an assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University. He is the author of A Manual for Creating Atheists and creator of the app Atheos. Connect with him on …

Anthony Walker spent eight years in the Army as a psychological operations specialist. He is currently a college student and blogs at psyopguy.com.

Hanna J. Hoffman, Ph.D., is a physicist and technology writer who deeply cares about the future of democracy in the US.