Author Bios

Glen Brown is a lecturer at Benedictine University in Illinois who currently teaches Humanities and composition.

Peter Bloom is a lecturer in organization studies in the Department of People and Organisation at The Open University.

Martin Xavi Macias is a chicano writer/journalist, urban planning student at the University of IL-­Chicago and community organizer. His interests include radical urbanism, mental health, collective liberation work and …

Celeste Larkin is the Public Policy Coordinator for Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America (CRLN) and a Masters student at the Autonomous University of Social Movements. She identifies …

Shandre Delaney - the mother of Carrington Keys, one of the Dallas 6 - is coordinator of the Justice for the Dallas 6 Support Campaign, which has grown into …

Ramin Farahmandpur is a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy in the Graduate School of Education at Portland State University.

Matthew Harwood is the ACLU's senior writer/editor.

Hina Shamsi is director of the ACLU's National Security Project.

Rebecca Boyles is a Senior Stakeholder Engagement Manager at Future 500, a global nonprofit specializing in stakeholder engagement and building bridges between parties at odds - often corporations and …

Marisa Franco is the director and co-founder of Mijente, a digital and grassroots organizing hub for Latinx and Chicanx people. Launched in 2015, Mijente seeks to strengthen and increase …