Author Bios

Kwaneta Harris is an incarcerated mother of three, with a wish to hug her children.

Joaquín M. Lara Midkiff is a human rights commissioner for the City of Salem, Oregon. He is also a fellow at the MacMillan Center, researcher at the Peabody Museum, …

Lily Levine (she/her) is a reporter based in Los Angeles and New York. During her time at the University of Chicago, she covered the intersection between health, education, environmental …

Srijita is a Reporting Intern at OpenSecrets and a master's student at the Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, MO, where much of her time is spent in the Missourian …

David Trend is a professor at the University of California, Irvine, and the former editor of the journals Socialist Review and Afterimage. Honored as a Getty Scholar, his books …

An ex-evangelical writer, speaker and advocate, Chrissy Stroop is (with Lauren O’Neal) co-editor of the essay anthology Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church. A senior correspondent for Religion …

Sangeeta Mangubhai is a 2018 Pew marine fellow with Talanoa Consulting.

Caroline Ferguson is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Teri Tuxson is the assistant coordinator of the Locally Managed Marine Area Network.

Stacy Jupiter is a 2019 MacArthur Fellow and the Melanesia regional director with the Wildlife Conservation Society.