Author Bios

Rajanie (Preity) Kumar is a Ph.D student in the Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies program at York University. She was born in Guyana and moved to Toronto when she …

Dani McClain is an Oakland-based journalist covering reproductive rights and sexuality. She reported on education while on staff at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and her writing has appeared in outlets …

Cheryl Dorsey is a retired LAPD sergeant, speaker, and much sought after police expert on important issues making national headlines; as such she has appeared as a guest expert …

Sharmila Rudrappa, a Public Voices fellow, is chairwoman of the Asia/Asian America Section of the American Sociological Association, and an associate professor in the sociology department at the University …

Nicki Lisa Cole, Ph.D. is a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society in Graz, Austria. A sociologist with expertise in global capitalism …

Lillian Osborne is an undergraduate student at Loyola University Chicago and an In These Times editorial intern. She is also a contributor to the Loyola Phoenix.

Anna Childs is the Deputy Director (Academic) for International Development at The Open University.

Kirsten Weld teaches Latin American history at Harvard University and is the author of Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala.