Author Bios

Alyssa Stryker is the criminal justice reform manager at the Drug Policy Alliance. She is committed to ending the war on drugs so that it can no longer be …

Sammy Sass is a writer and artist from Boston who has been talking, listening and creating for as long as she has had hands to write and words to …

Christopher ‘Toby’ McLeod directs the Sacred Land Film Project. His most recent film series, the award-winning Standing on Sacred Ground, tells the stories of eight embattled indigenous communities around the world. …

Samantha Schmidt wrote this article for YES! Magazine. Samantha is a graduating senior majoring in journalism and Arabic at Indiana University. She reported this story while studying abroad in Amman, Jordan. She …

Alex Rowell is a research assistant with the Economic Policy team at the Center for American Progress. Follow him on Twitter: @AlexRowell.

Brendan Duke is a Tax Policy Analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Prior to joining the Center, Duke was the Associate Director for Economic Policy at …

Cindy Cohn is the executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). From 2000-2015, she served as EFF's legal director as well as its general counsel. Cohn first became …

Sharita Gruberg is a senior policy analyst at the Center for American Progress' LGBT Research and Communiciations Project. Follow her on Twitter: @shugruberg.

Erica Smiley is organizing director at Jobs With Justice, a national network of grassroots-based labor and community coalitions.

Christian Coleman is the editor of Beacon Broadside, a project of Beacon Press.