Author Bios

Giovani Serrano is a senior at City Arts and Technology High School in San Francisco.

John Boik, PhD is Founder, Principled Societies Project.

Lorenzo Fioramonti, PhD is Professor of Political Economy and Director, Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Joseph Abay is senior policy analyst for Robert Weiner Associates and Solutions for Change.

Arianne Shahvisi is a professor of philosophy at the American University of Beirut who writes occasional opinion pieces on gender, race, class, and borders, and has recently written for the …

Joseph Osmundson is a biomedical scientist and a writer based in New York City. He is an Associate Editor at The Feminist Wire. You can follow him on Twitter …

A.C. Thompson is a staff reporter with ProPublica. His stories, which often examine the criminal legal system, have helped lead to the exoneration of two innocent San Francisco men …

Jamie Kilstein is a stand-up comedian, who has been featured on The Conan O’Brien Show, Showtime, Up With Chris, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, and NPR’s Weekend Edition. One time, …

Jonathan D. Simon, author of CODE RED: Computerized Election Theft and the New American Century, is a cofounder and currently executive director of Election Defense Alliance, a nonprofit organization …

Kaja Baum is a contributor to Foreign Policy in Focus.