Author Bios

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 …

Lyndal Rowlands is United Nations bureau chief at Inter Press Service. As a UN correspondent since 2014 she has covered a wide range of international development issues, including development …

V. James DeSimone has been a partner for twenty-five years with Schonbrun DeSimone et al. LLP, a civil rights law firm consistently attaining successful results for its clients in …

Cole Stangler is an In These Times staff writer and Schumann Fellow based in Washington DC, covering labor, trade, foreign policy and environmental issues. His reporting has appeared in …

Marc Morial is the president and CEO of the National Urban League and the former mayor of New Orleans. www.nul.org

Kara Dansky is Senior Counsel at the ACLU Center for Justice.

Tamanna Rahman is a registered nurse and former labor organizer. She is currently a graduate student in advanced practice nursing at Yale University. 

Geoff Gilbert is a writer, lawyer and organizer working toward social justice and creating political and economic democracy. Geoff does some organizing with IfNotNow and works as a lawyer …