Author Bios

Katy Skahill is a member of Breast Cancer Action, a national grassroots education and activist organization working to address and end the breast cancer epidemic.

Sheyenne Rowel is a high school student in San Francisco.

André Leu is president of IFOAM Organics International, and on the steering committee of Regeneration International.

Kaleb Autman is a Chicago-based youth organizer and activist. He attends Village Leadership Academy. His work focuses on prisons and detention centers, state and state-sanctioned violence, and racial discrimination …

A'mani Howard is a young feminist organizer from her sweet home Chicago. She attends Village Leadership Academy, a social justice-based school. She studies and organizes around state violence against …

Alexis Bonogofsky is a fourth generation Montanan, rancher and anti-coal organizer who was featured in the recent climate change documentary This Changes Everything. In 2014, she was awarded a …

Jessica Knoblauch received her Master of Arts in environmental journalism from Michigan State University in 2008 and her Bachelor of Arts in English from Northern Illinois University in 2005. …

Connie Wun, Ph.D., has worked as a high school teacher, sexual assault counselor and youth advocate. Her research interests include the politics of school discipline and punishment, racial and …

Nazish Kolsy is a contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus.