Author Bios

Born in New Orleans, raised in Houston, & now living in Manhattan, Irene Vázquez is a queer Black Mexican American poet, translator, and journalist. Irene's debut chapbook Take Me …

Nour Saudi is a New York City-based writer and audio journalist. She is currently a producer at Futuro Media, where she leads production on podcast series. She envisions a …

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.