Author Bios

Carrie Sloan is the senior research analyst at the Refund America Project of the Roosevelt Institute.

Taylor Brorby is Reviews Editor at Orion Magazine and a fellow at the Black Earth Institute. He is currently at work on both a poetry and essay collection.

Jerry Kloby is a sociology professor at a community college in New Jersey (the County College of Morris). He has had articles appear in Monthly Review, Critical Sociology, CommonDreams.org, …

Dr. Chang is an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan with honors in Cellular and Molecular Biology …

Dr. Gergen is a primary care physician who strongly believes that collaborative primary care can serve as a tool to address social determinants of health like poverty, toxic stress, …

Lena Odgaard is a Middle East-based journalist for radio, TV and web. Her stories have been published by international online news sites such as Al Jazeera English, Al Jazeera …

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 …