Author Bios

Sarah Smith is a reporter covering housing, mental health, poverty and religion for ProPublica’s South unit.

Esther Kersley is the research and communications officer on the Remote Control project. The project, hosted by Oxford Research Group, examines changes in military engagement, in particular the use …

Emran Feroz is an Afghan-Austrian journalist, writer and activist currently based in Germany. He is the founder of Drone Memorial, a virtual memorial for civilian drone strike victims. 

Ann Tiffany is a social justice activist based in Syracuse, New York,  who has encountered the US empire in Colombia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and Haiti.

Pippa Norris is an ARC laureate fellow, professor of government and international relations at the University of Sydney and McGuire lecturer in comparative politics at Harvard University. Disclosure: Pippa …

Neda Simaika is a 2009 Cornell graduate living in New York City.

Zachary Peters is an attorney and a CMD policy counsel; he is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he served as the senior managing editor of …

Julian Cola is a translator in Latin America. He has a BA (cum laude) in Portuguese from the University of New Mexico.

Eve Mitchell is a member of Unity and Struggle and has been involved in a variety of anti-incarceration, pro-immigrant and racial justice struggles. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New …

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