Author Bios

Ash Stephens (he/they) is an incoming assistant professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Justice (CLJ) at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). His research focuses on trans, …

Sally Sheard is Reader in the History of Medicine at University of Liverpool.

Kay Whitlock is author In a Time of Broken Bones, an early challenge to hate crime laws published by the American Friends Service Committee in 2001. Her new book …

Tanya is an epidemiologist working within the Social and Mathematical Epidemiology group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her research focuses on violence against women,its causes, …

James Schamus is an American award-winning screenwriter, co-founder of Good Machine production company, and the CEO of Focus Features until its merging with FilmDistrict, the motion picture production, financing, …

Lauren McCauley is an assistant editor at Common Dreams and a documentary producer; her most recent film is Mississippi Messiah, about civil rights leader James Meredith.

Shaun (Sha) Grogan-Brown is the Development and Communications Coordinator of Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ), a national alliance of over 56 US-based grassroots organizinggroups building power for poor and working families …

Kali Nicole Gross, PhD, a Public Voices Fellows, is an associate professor and associate chairwoman of the African and African Diaspora Studies Department at The University of Texas at …

Mary Hansen has a hard time staying in one place but is also known to write, edit and be a die-hard Steelers fan. She is an online reporting intern …