Author Bios

Movement for Justice in El Barrio is a grassroots organization in East Harlem, founded by Latina immigrant mothers to fight back against the attack on affordable housing and displacement. …

Galen Leonhardy's work as a critical theorist, composition teacher and essayist focuses on educational experiences, abuses of academic administrative authority, writing assessment and on issues of race and class. He is currently a professor of …

Lori Freshwater is an East Coast-based freelance journalist. She is also a member of the Camp Lejeune CAP which works with the CDC on Lejeune's water contamination case.

Benjamin Palumbo has been involved in politics since 1958, when he volunteered with the College Young Democrats to support the election of Harrison A. Williams, Jr. to the US …

Adriana Maestas has been writing about Latinos in politics since her days as an undergraduate at UC Irvine. She holds a bachelor's degree in political science from UC Irvine …

Luna Ranjit is the executive director of Adhikaar and a cofounder of the New York Healthy Nail Salons Coalition. She is a Ms. Foundation Public Voices Fellow with The …

Stuart Shalat is Professor and Director of the Division of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Georgia State University.

Dr. Roz Pidcock is our deputy editor and science editor, covering new research in the climate sciences and media coverage of climate change. She has a PhD in physical …

Elizabeth McNichol is a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities specializing in state fiscal issues including the economy’s impact on state budgets and long-term structural …