Author Bios

Khawla Nakua is a freelance reporter covering stories on voting rights, prison issues, religion and Muslim communities. She's currently based in Canada.

Alliyah Lusuegro is the National Priorities Project (NPP) outreach coordinator.

Tracy McCarter is a mother, grandmother and nurse from New York. She is a winner of the 2023 Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize.

Jonathan Graubart is a professor and chairperson of the political science department at San Diego State. His recent book is Jewish Self-Determination beyond Zionism: Lessons from Hannah Arendt and other Pariahs …

Tony D. Vick has served almost three decades in prison on a life-with-parole sentence in Tennessee. He was born in 1962 in Clarksville, Tennessee. While in prison, Tony has …

Gabriela Tejeda is a National Geographic Society Young Explorer and photographer. She works with The Nature Conservancy and is based in the Florida Keys.

Abigail Geiger is a freelance correspondent based in, and focused on, Florida.

Stewart Huntington is a contributor at ICT.

Don Thompson is an author at KFF Health News.

Sandra Henriquez is the CEO of ValorUS®, a California-based, national anti-sexual violence organization and California’s sexual assault coalition.