Author Bios

Charmaine Lang (she/they/sista docta) is a Black queer woman from South Central Los Angeles who now resides in North Carolina. All of Charmaine’s work is grounded in Black Feminist …

Rae Garringer is a writer, oral historian, and audio producer based in southern West Virginia where they were raised. They are the founder of Country Queers, a multimedia oral …

Victoria Bouloubasis is an award-winning journalist, food writer and Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker. Since 2008, her work aims to dispel myths about the global South — its people and places …

Aja Arnold is a journalist based in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the director of Atlanta-based media outlet Mainline and a frequent contributor to nonprofit investigative outlet The Appeal. She …

Natalie Jeffers leads The Black Hive @ M4BL. She is a climate scientist, educator and activist.

Nadav is an artist and anti-Zionist Jew based in Lenapehoking / Brooklyn.

Jaclynn Ashly is a multimedia freelance journalist who has worked in more than a dozen countries. She specializes in telling in-depth stories that relate to human rights, migration, culture, …

Liz Avore is Senior Policy Advisor at Voting Rights Lab and is a leading national expert on election legislation and policy development.

Owen Lavine is a journalism senior at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and a reporter for the San Luis Obispo Tribune.