Author Bios

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.

Jodie Fleischer is an award-winning journalist and the Managing Editor of Investigative Content and Collaborations for Cox Media Group.