Author Bios

Patrick McCarthy is president and CEO of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a private philanthropy that creates a brighter future for the nation's children.

Veronica Vieira is an associate professor of public health at the University of California, Irvine.

Ellen Rand is a journalist, hospice volunteer and author of the book Last Comforts: Notes from the Forefront of Late Life Care. Amazon.com/author/ellenrand. Website: https://lastcomforts.com. Twitter: @EllenRandNJ.

Cynthia Dewi Oka works at Grassroots Global Justice Alliance and her book of poems, Nomad of Salt and Hard Water, was a 2015 Pushcart Prize nominee.

Almantas Samalavicius holds a Ph.D. in art history and theory and is a professor at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. He is the author of numerous books and essays on cultural …

Lorraine E. Maxwell is a professor of Design and Environmental Analysis at Cornell University and a Public Voices Fellow of The OpEd Project.

Amanda Bass is a 2015 graduate of New York University School of Law, and she works as an attorney.

J. Celso Castro Alves, a native of Brazil, earned his Ph.D. in history from Yale University and works as an independent researcher, historian and photographer.

Emily Pollom is a conservation biologist and sister of a person incarcerated in Indiana.

Todd Chretien lives in the San Francisco Bay area and is a frequent contributor to Socialist Worker and the International Socialist Review.