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Erika Galindo

Erika Galindo is a media adviser for Fuerza del Valle Workers' Center. She attended Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi where she served as managing editor at Island Waves Student Newspaper. …
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Robyn Maynard

Robyn Maynard is a Black feminist writer, activist, and most recently, a brand-new mama. She is a full-time outreach worker Stella, a by-and-for sex workers service and advocacy organization in …
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Bianca Jagger

Bianca Jagger is founder, president and chief executive of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation, a Council of Europe Goodwill ambassador, IUCN Bonn Challenge ambassador, senior fellow at the …
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Rachel Herzing

Rachel Herzing fights the violence of policing and imprisonment. She is a co-founder of Critical Resistance, a national grassroots organization dedicated to abolishing the prison industrial complex and was …
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Graham MacPhee

Graham MacPhee is professor of English at West Chester University. He writes on British identity, politics and culture, and is the author of Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies …
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Andrea Cristina Mercado

Andrea Cristina Mercado is the campaign director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and co-chair of We Belong Together: Women for Commonsense Immigration Policies.
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Crystal Wells

Crystal Wells is a Communications Officer at Concern Worldwide US, a global humanitarian organization working to eliminate extreme poverty in 25 of the world’s poorest countries. Its programs, spanning …
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Kristian Winfield

Kristian Winfield was a summer reporter for the Center for Public Integrity's Environment and Labor team in 2015. He graduated from The Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications …
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Ava Kofman

Ava Kofman is a journalist based in New York. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation and Vice, among other places.