Author Bios

Carolyn L. Karcher is professor emerita of English, American studies and women’s studies at Temple University, where she taught for 21 years and received the Great Teacher Award and …

Mat Schumer is a writer for OpenSecrets.

Janet Golden is a professor emerita at Rutgers University and author of Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought America into the Twentieth Century.

Grace E. Howard is an associate professor of justice studies at San Jose State University and a Public Voices Fellow with The OpEd Project.

Charles Glass is the author of Soldiers Don’t Go Mad: A Story of Brotherhood, Poetry and Mental Illness During the First World War. He is one of the plaintiffs against …

Fiore Longo is a research and advocacy officer at Survival International, the global movement for Indigenous peoples’ rights, and co-editor of Decolonize Conservation! (Common Notions Books, 2023).

Arvind Dilawar is an independent journalist. His articles, interviews and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Time Magazine, The Daily Beast, and elsewhere. Find him online at: adilawar.com

Rebecca Chowdhury is a freelance journalist covering grassroots organizing and focusing on immigration, criminal justice and surveillance issues. Her work has appeared in Time, The Appeal, In These Times …

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 …