Author Bios

Cynthia Gordy is ProPublica's marketing director. She comes to ProPublica after serving as deputy communications director for Advancement Project, where she developed comprehensive media campaigns for the national civil …

Tracy Frisch is an independent journalist based in upstate New York near the Vermont border. In the 1990s and early 2000s, she worked as an advocate and organizer on …

Jeff Haas is a founding partner of the People's Law Office (PLO) in Chicago. He was, together with Flint Taylor, a lead lawyer in the landmark Fred Hampton and …

Christine Dickason is a former fellow of the Next Leaders program at the Institute for Policy Studies.  

Elinore Kaufman, MD, is a surgeon in Philadelphia. Twitter: @ElinoreJKaufman.

Dr. Jeffrey D. Pugh is Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and Executive Director of the Center for Mediation, Peace, and Resolution of Conflict (CEMPROC), based in Quito-Ecuador.

Laura Tuggle is the executive director of Southeast Louisiana Legal Services, a civil legal aid organization.

William S. Lynn, Ph.D. (Bill), is a research scientist in the George Perkins Marsh Institute at Clark University, Senior Fellow for Ethics and Public Policy in the Center for …

Emma Scully is a research associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs.

Corinne Pinfold is a British writer recently returned from the West Bank. She has written articles for Birzeit University, Key Insights, Pink News, and her own blog, Somewhere Slowly.