Author Bios

Miriam Shestack is a Spring 2015 In These Times editorial intern. She is a senior at the University of Chicago majoring in history and a member of Students Organizing United with …

Taylor Owen is the author of Disruptive Power: The Crisis of the State in the Digital Age (2015). He is Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Global Affairs at the …

Ben Kiernan is the author of How Pol Pot Came to Power (1985), The Pol Pot Regime (1996), Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur …

Brittney Figueroa is a research associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs.

Linda Goler Blount is the president and CEO of the Black Women's Health Imperative.

Miriam Yeung is executive director of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (NAPAWF).

Jessica González-Rojas is the executive director at the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health.

Ta-Nehisi Coates is a writer, journalist, educator and senior editor for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics and social issues. He is also a former writer for …

Michele Norris is an award-winning journalist who reported for ABC News and wrote for The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times before hosting National Public …