Author Bios

Kali Robinson is a 2016 In These Times editorial intern. She is a journalism student at Northwestern University and is on Twitter @Professor_Kali.

Laura Vandenberg is an assistant professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's School of Public Health and Health Sciences. 

Christina Rudén is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry at Stockholm University, Sweden.

Jonathan Bibriesca was born in Mexico City, México. In 1999, at the age of 14, he came to the United States with the rest of his family to reunite …

Andrew Austin is Chair of Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Green Bay-Wisconsin

Stephanie Farquhar, Ph.D., is a public health expert.

Erin Crosby is communications and operations director at the Budd Center at Southern Methodist University.

Robyn McGee is a Los Angeles-based author and women's studies professor. Her work has appeared in Bitch Media and Seventeen Magazine. Robyn's groundbreaking book Hungry for More focused on the struggles …

Sadie Ryanne Baker is a crazy Appalachian trans woman and radical mental health activist living in Chicago, where she is a support worker for LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness. Read …

Joseph R. Dole is an award-winning author and artist with a BA in critical legal studies from NEIU/UWW. He is one of the co-founders and policy director of Parole …