Author Bios

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.

Sarah Edelman is a Policy Analyst on the Housing Finance and Policy team at the Center for American Progress.

Tex Dworkin is a contributor to Care2.

Hugh Christopher Brown is a Canadian musician, music producer and social justice activist. He founded the Pros and Cons music mentoring program volunteering at Pittsburgh Institution in Kingston, Ontario, where …

Dr. Arif Dirlik lives in Eugene, Oregon, in semi-retirement. He was formerly Knight Professor of Social Science and Professor of History and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oregon …

Vanessa Lynn Lovelace is a doctoral candidate in Political Science and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Connecticut. Her research interests include the gendering of Black …

George Joseph is a reporter focusing on education and labor issues in New York City.

Lyle Jeremy Rubin is a Ph.D. candidate in American history at the University of Rochester. He served in the United States Marine Corps for five years, and nearly a …