Author Bios

Sima Shakhsari is an associate professor and the co-chair of the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Their book, Politics of …

Tamanika Ferguson is an OpEd Project Public Voices Fellow on Advancing the Rights of Women and Girls in conjunction with Equality Now. She is currently working on a book …

Amy Jo Hutchison is an economic justice organizer in West Virginia.

Priti Gulati Cox is an artist and local organizer for CODEPINK Sidewalk Gallery of Congress, a community street art space in Salina, Kansas. Her current visual work It’s Time is growing month by month …

Ericka Wills is a professor at the University of Wisconsin School for Workers.

Allison Orris is a Senior Fellow on the Health Policy team at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Keith Newell is a News Reporting Intern at OpenSecrets.

Haley Czarnek is the national director of Law Students for Climate Accountability and serves as a fellow for United Campus Workers Alabama and the co-chair of the Labor Committee …

Mary Grant is the Public Water for All Director at the advocacy group Food & Water Watch.

Zan Irani is the pseudonym for an Iranian American woman with family and friends in Iran who is currently living in the U.S. but continues to visit the country.