Author Bios

Patrick McGinley is a professor of law at West Virginia University. McGinley served as counsel or co-counsel in cases challenging the alternative bonding systems in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. …

Kate Boccia is the founder and CEO of the National Incarceration Association.

H Kapp-Klote is the digital and communications director for GetEQUAL, a national LGBTQ grassroots network. They are a writer, organizer and general media nerd from Kansas, and have written …

Chelsea Skojec is a natural resources conservation student based in Gainesville, Florida. Her writing has appeared in the New York Observer, The Huffington Post and LiveScience. Follow her on …

Sally Neas wrote this article for YES! Magazine. Sally is a freelance writer and community educator based in Santa Cruz, California. She has a background in permaculture, sustainable agriculture, and community …

Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky is the United Nations Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt on human rights.

Salar Mohandesi is an editor of Viewpoint and a doctoral candidate in History at the University of Pennsylvania.

Baher Kamal is director of the Middle East and North Africa agencies at the Inter Press Service. Kamal is an Egyptian born, Spanish national with more than 40 years …

Novella Coleman is a staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California.

Abre' Conner is a staff attorney at the ACLU of Northern California. She lives in Fresno, in California's Central Valley. Follow her on Twitter @MsAConner.