Author Bios

Julie Chinitz is the lead writer for People's Action.

Paula Schmidt's writing has been published in Brainline, Chicken Soup. She lives in the Pacific Northwest. 

J. Corey Williams is a resident physician in psychiatry at Yale University. 

Gus Bova is an activist, shelter-worker and writer in Austin, Texas. 

Sarah Schilliger is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department for Social Sciences at the University of Basel. In her PhD (2014) she did research on care migration and global care chains …

Melanie Barron, a doctoral student in geography at UT Knoxville, recently joined UCW staff as an organizer and researcher. 

Melissa Hellmann is a YES! Magazine reporting fellow and graduate of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. She has written for the Associated Press, TIME, The Christian Science Monitor, …

Sharon Smith, author of Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States, takes a closer look at the income statistics everyone is celebrating.

Tamika L. Butler, esq. is a proud Nebraskan living in Los Angeles as the executive director of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition. Previously, she was thedirector of social change strategies at Liberty Hill Foundation, where she oversaw the foundation's boys and …

Chloe Riley is a Chicago-based freelance writer. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Reader, the Guardian and DNAinfo.