Author Bios

Aanika Beller is a fourth-year sociology student at the University of Pennsylvania whose work is focused on violence prevention education, farming and food justice.

Andrea Barajas is a third-year student studying criminology and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Passionate about youth-based restorative and transformative justice, she is also an incoming submatriculate master's …

Stephanie Guilloud is the Movement Organizing Senior Strategist at Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty and Genocide based in Atlanta, Georgia. Guilloud brings close to three decades of …

Ash Peterson (she/they) is a freelance writer and illustrator with a particular interest in environmental and disability issues. They are based in Northwest Georgia, where she received two awards …

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 …