Author Bios

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian is a contributing editor at Dissent and an editor at Al Jazeera America and the New Inquiry.

Adam Stone a Ph.D. student in Educational Neuroscience at Gallaudet University and a research assistant with the Petitto Brain and Language Laboratory (BL2) and the NSF Center on Visual …

Terrell Jermaine Starr is a senior editor at AlterNet. Follow him on Twitter @Russian_Starr.

Sharda Sekaran is managing director of communications for the Drug Policy Alliance.

Charlotte Maria Sáenz is Media and Education Coordinator for Other Worlds and teaches at the California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco, where she is a founding member of the …

Originally trained in pediatrics and public health, Sayantani DasGupta, MD MPH, teaches in the Master's Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University and the Graduate Program in Health Advocacy …

Armin Niakan, is an Undergraduate Pure Mathematics student at Moorpark College in California. 

Puck Lo is a freelance journalist who lives between Oakland, California, and Brooklyn, New York. She writes for Al Jazeera America and The Nation.

David Lauter is the Los Angeles Times’ Washington bureau chief. He began writing news in Washington in 1981 and since then has covered Congress, the Supreme Court, the White …

Yohuru Williams is a professor of history at Fairfield University.