Author Bios

BJ Last organizes with the Seattle Solidarity Budget and is a business analyst with over a decade of budgeting experience.

Angélica Cházaro is a Seattle-based writer, professor and movement participant. She organizes with the Seattle Solidarity Budget and Shut Down King County Jail coalitions.

Melanie Brazzell is a scholar, organizer and a graduate student at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Their work focuses on the past, present and futures of the …

Shirley Leslie is the national development director of Critical Resistance, a national grassroots organization that seeks to build an international movement to end the prison-industrial complex by challenging the belief that …

Beenash Jafri is an assistant professor of gender, sexuality and women’s studies at the University of California, Davis.

Micaela Morse is an Oakland educator.

Daria Marcantonio Kieffer is an Oakland educator.

Paul has an MEng in Chemical engineering and a PhD in the field of environmental engineering and environmental economics. He is a chartered engineer from his time in industry …

Maria Olczak is a PhD candidate at the Queen Mary University of London researching policies and technologies to monitor and mitigate methane emissions across major man-made sources. In 2022, …

Mr. Piebalgs is currently the Commissioner for Development for the European Commission. He was previously European Commissioner for Energy (2004-2009), Deputy Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of …