Author Bios

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.

Roy Maconachie is a senior lecturer in International Development at University of Bath.  

Séverine Deneulin is a Senior Lecturer in International Development. Her research is in ethics and development policy. She specialises in the ethical framework of the capability approach and in …