Author Bios

Neil deMause is a Brooklyn-based freelance journalist who writes for books, magazines and newspapers on mainly New York City's social policy issues.

Bryan Stevenson is the executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, and a professor of law at New York University Law School. He has won relief …

Dominique Hazzard laughs in the face of the white heteropatriarchy while skipping merrily through the District, creating interfaith tools to address poverty, and eating bacon. Follow her on Twitter.

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.