Author Bios

Mariah Clay is a climate activist in Huntington, West Virginia, and a volunteer with the Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights Coalition.

Floyd D. Collins is the co-founder of Awareness Into Domestic Abuse (AIDA). He can be reached at Floyd D. Collins #P38284, San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, 94974 …

Steven Monacelli is the Texas Observer's Special Investigative Correspondent, based in Dallas. His reporting has been featured in Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, The Real News, Dallas Observer, Dallas …

Pria Mahadevan is a freelance journalist based in Atlanta, Georgia. She's reported and produced public radio stories for NPR stations in the midwest, west coast, and the South. Before …

Kendra Cotton is the CEO of the New Georgia Project Action Fund and a member of the Black Southern Women’s Collaborative.

Mariah Montgomery is the national campaigns director at PowerSwitch Action. She works with local organizations and coalitions to address the impact of big tech firms on political and economic …

Veronica Avila is the deputy director of worker campaigns at the Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE). She has organized and conducted research to support organizing across …

Saher Selod is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at Simmons University. She is also a faculty affiliate of the Center for Security, Race, and …

Vesper Moore is a disability rights activist, content creator, writer and trainer. Vesper Moore is the lead editor at Madness Network News, host of the “GET MAD! Podcast” and …

Leah Ida Harris is an abolitionist writer whose work centers on resistance to carceral policies of force and coercion. Their forthcoming book, Noncompliant: A Family History of the Asylum …