Author Bios

Susan Smith Richardson, a 2003 Nieman fellow, is editor and publisher of The Chicago Reporter. Follow her on Twitter: @susaneudora.

Russ Martens career spans four decades in printing and publishing management.

Lacino Hamilton is a writer, thinker and activist who was incarcerated for 26 years thanks to a wrongful conviction, and was exonerated in September 2020. He is the author …

David Berggren is a Swedish security consultant currently based in New York. He spent the past 10 years working for NGOs in several countries in Africa and Europe as a security …

Laura H. Kahn is a general internist who began her career in health care as a registered nurse. Kahn works on the research staff of Princeton University's Program on Science …

Lisa Taylor is a member of the Witness for Peace Colombia Team.

Isbel Díaz Torres is a member of Arcoiris, a queer anti-capitalist collective, and Observatorio Critico, a network of autonomous anti-capitalists who coordinate various projects for nonviolence, antiracism, LGBT rights, …

Logbona Olukonee is Cuban history professor and a queer feminist activist.

Olivia Marple is a research associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs.