Author Bios

Alex S. Vitale is professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and author of The End of Policing.

Colin studied sociology and medical anthropology in the United States and Britain. His interests span the social sciences and humanities. Since 1994, he has been involved in a long …

Dr. Jim Green is the national nuclear campaigner with Friends of the Earth Australia and editor of the Nuclear Monitor newsletter.

Born in New Delhi but raised in the US, Sanjana Andrews currently works as an investment risk consultant in Singapore while doing journalistic writing on the side.

David Rolf is the president of SEIU 775 and an international vice president of SEIU. He has led some of the largest organizing efforts since the 1930s, including the …

Carl Lipscombe is the policy and legal manager at the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), a national nonprofit organization that advocates on behalf of immigrants from Africa, the …

Frederica Perera is a professor and researcher at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health.

Alejandro Beltran is a Latino lawyer living in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

La'Kayla Williams attends the University of Texas at Austin. Her mentor, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, a Public Voices fellow and professor of African and African diaspora studies, contributed to this piece.