Author Bios

Sophie Hurwitz is a Brooklyn-based fact-checker and reporter.

Erica González Martínez is the director of Power 4 Puerto Rico, a national coalition of Puerto Rican diaspora groups and allies working to clear federal hurdles in the way …

Nora Loreto is a writer and activist based in Quebec City. She is also the president of the Canadian Freelance Union.

Bill Martin is professor emeritus in the Sociology Department at the State University of New York at Binghamton, coauthor of After Prisons? Freedom, Decarceration, and Justice Disinvestment, a founding …

Sheila P. Vakharia is the author of The Harm Reduction Gap: Helping Individuals Left Behind by Conventional Drug Prevention and Abstinence-only Treatment (February 2024, Routledge) and the deputy director …

Gayatri Reddy is an associate professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Anthropology at the University of Illinois Chicago and former Public Voices fellow of the OpEd Project. She …

Kenneth Allen is a graduate student in the ​​Master of Arts in the Teaching of History program at University of Illinois Chicago. His research focuses on contemporary U.S. history, …

Ilham Rawoot is a climate justice activist and writer based in Cape Town. She campaigns against corporate impunity in the extractive industry and has written for several international outlets, …

Mohammed El-Kurd is a writer and poet from Jerusalem, occupied Palestine. He is the Culture Editor at Mondoweiss.

Zachary Tashman is a senior research and policy associate at Americans for Tax Fairness.