Author Bios

Tim Karr is the senior director of strategy for Free Press, a US-based digital rights organization. You can follow him on Twitter @TimKarr.

Christy Rodgers has lived and traveled extensively in Latin America and worked in solidarity with the FMLN in El Salvador during the country’s twelve-year long civil war. She has been …

Kit O’Connell is a genderqueer movement journalist, and digital editor at the Texas Observer, who has lived in Texas since 1998. Their citizen journalism during Occupy Wall Street led to …

Nelson A. Denis served in the New York State Assembly, and is the author of War Against All Puerto Ricans (Nation Books, 2015).

Conn M. Hallinan is a columnist for Foreign Policy in Focus, ‘A Think Tank Without Walls,’ and an independent journalist. He holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University …

Melissa Mendes was born and raised in Western Massachusetts. In 2010, after graduating from the Center for Cartoon Studies, she won a Xeric award to self-publish her book Freddy Stories. …

Allan Holmes is a Senior Reporter at The Center for Public Integrity. 

Marianna Olinger is a contributor to Ninja.