Author Bios

Jessica Faieta is United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and UN Development Programme (UNDP) Director for Latin America and the Caribbean www.latinamerica.undp.org @jessicafaieta @undplac

Faiza Patel serves as co-director of the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program. She has testified before Congress opposing the dragnet surveillance of Muslims, organized advocacy efforts against …

David ‘Goldy’ Goldstein wrote this article for The End of Poverty, the Fall 2014 issue of YES! Magazine. Goldy blogs on Washington State politics at Horsesass.org. He is a …

Jasmine is an activist and leader in the Reproductive Justice movement. She led successful advocacy campaigns through SisterSong NYC, the New York Coalition for Reproductive Justice, and was a …

Ian Haney López, a UC Berkeley law professor and senior fellow at Demos, is the author of Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked …

Julia Gordon is the Director of Housing Finance and Policy at the Center for American Progress.