Author Bios

Cheryl Clark writes for ProPublica.

Brendan O'Brien is the author of the upcoming book Homesick: Why Housing is Unaffordable and How We Can Change It.

Lisa Kloskin is acquisitions editor at Broadleaf Books, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She worked with Lacino Hamilton on his book, In Spite of the Consequences.

Wesley Vaughan is a formerly incarcerated writer whose nonfiction has appeared in The Appeal, Inquest, Next City, Truthout and the Vera Institute of Justice. He is a member of …

Khelil Bouarrouj is a writer and civil rights advocate based in Washington, D.C. His work can be found in The New Arab, Washington Blade, Palestine Square, and other publications.

Felix Allen is a former Lowe’s employee and musician based in New Orleans.

Betsy Yoon is an assistant professor at Baruch College and a member of Nodutdol for Korean Community Development. She has been to North Korea four times.

Rotimi Kukoyi is a Public Voices fellow of The OpEd Project and The National Black Child Development Institute. He is a Morehead-Cain Scholar at the University of North Carolina …

Kevin Revier is an assistant professor of criminology at Arcadia University. He is working on his book, Policing Pain: Opioids, Crisis, and a Shifting Drug War, which will be published by …

Eliana Perozo is an Ida B. Wells scholar and documentary filmmaker completing her master's of arts in Engagement Journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.