Author Bios

Margaret Knapke is a longtime Latin America human rights activist and a contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus.

Evelyn Reynolds is Director of Black Lives Matter: Champaign-Urbana, Associate Professor of Sociology, Parkland College, Champaign, IL.

Tommaso Segantini is an independent freelance journalist. His personal blog can be found here. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Facebook.

Katharina Obser researches and advocates for reform of U.S. detention policies affecting asylum seekers and immigrant women for the Migrant Rights & Justice Program at the Women's Refugee Commission.

Hilal Elver is a professor of law and the UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Food (started at June 2014), and a distinguished global fellow of the Resnick Program …

Judith Solomon is vice president for Health Policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, where she focuses on Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program and issues …

Dorothy Samuels is a senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. Prior to joining the Brennan Center, Ms. Samuels served, for a record 30 years, as a member …

Margaret Santjer is a writer, editor and communications professional in the Seattle area. She has worked for NBCNews.com and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Brad Wong, news editor for Equal Voice …

Margot Ford McMillen farms near Fulton, Mo. Email: [email protected].