Author Bios

Monica Cosby is a mother, feminist, poet and activist. She is from the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago and comes from a long and rich tradition of activism. She was …

Martinez Sutton is an anti-police brutality activist from Chicago, Illinois. He is the brother of Rekia Boyd who was murdered by a Chicago police detective on March 21, 2012. …

Michael T. Barry Jr. is a doctoral candidate in history at American University in Washington, D.C., and teaches U.S. history at Montgomery College. He is also an award-winning documentary …

Brandon Jordan is a freelance journalist living in Queens, New York. His work has appeared in The Nation, In These Times and City Limits. Follow him on Twitter: @BrandonJ_R.

Aruna Dutt is a correspondent for the United Nations. Follow her on Twitter @aruna_dutt.

Bob Burton is the editor of CoalWire.

Mary Ignatius is the statewide organizer of Parent Voices, a parent-led, parent-run child care advocacy group in California and a Ms. Foundation Public Voices Fellow through The Op-Ed Project.

Aleyamma Mathew is the director of Women's Economic Justice at the Ms. Foundation for Women.

Andrea J. Serrano is deputy director at OLÉ in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and a Ms. Foundation Public Voices Fellow through The Op-Ed Project.

Carter Vance has written for Jacobin, Truthout and Inquires Journal, among other publications. Vance has a Masters of Arts from the Political Economy program at Carleton University in Ottawa, …