Author Bios

Sarmad Ishfaq is an independent researcher and writer whose work has been published by The Diplomat, Harvard, OpenDemocracy, Paradigm Shift and Eurasia Review, to name a few. He has …

Shirley Lung is a professor at City University of New York School of Law, where she teaches and writes about the conditions faced by low-wage workers, the intersection between …

JoAnn Lum is an organizer with the National Mobilization Against SweatShops (NMASS), a community-based workers’ center in New York City which is part of the Break the Chains Alliance. NMASS brings together …

Marcy Newman is the author of The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans: Addressing Pedagogical Strategies and is a founding member of the US Campaign for the Academic and …

Robert Downen is a reporter covering democracy and the threats to it, including extremism, disinformation and conspiracies. Before joining the Tribune in 2022, he worked for five years at the …

Reema Saleh is an intern at the Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut.

brian bean is a socialist agitator and organizer based in Chicago, founding editor of Rampant Magazine, member of the Tempest collective, and co-editor and contributor to the book Palestine: …

Eric “Rico” Gutstein has been part of the education justice movement in Chicago for the past 25 years, a co-founder of Teachers for Social Justice (Chicago), 1998, and was …

Jonathan Ofir is an Israeli-born Jewish musician, conductor and writer based in Denmark.