Author Bios

Jennifer Berry Hawes is a reporter with ProPublica’s South hub who focuses on criminal justice, religion, race and the welfare of women and children. Prior to ProPublica, Hawes worked …

Dylan Pyles (he/him) is an abolitionist organizer and educator from Kansas City, Missouri. He is a co-founder of Decarcerate KC and Liberation Lit.

Amaia Cook (she/her) is an abolitionist organizer in Kansas City, and a co-founder of Decarcerate KC.

Murrow, Emmy and National Headliner award winning TV journalist, working as an investigative reporter in a national role. Recently joined InvestigateTV as a National Investigative Reporter - producing, writing …

Tatyana Tandanpolie is a news fellow at Salon. Born and raised in central Ohio, she moved to New York City in 2018 to pursue degrees in journalism and Africana …

Fred Clasen-Kelly, senior correspondent for KFF Health News, reports enterprise and investigative articles focused on the South from his base in Charlotte, North Carolina. Previously, he wrote about housing, …

Asheesh Kapur Siddique is an assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Aallyah Wright is Capital B's rural issues reporter.

Akielly Hu is a news and politics fellow at Grist.

Caitlin Mahoney is a research fellow at True North Research where she tracks extremism and dark money in U.S. politics. Her previous research has examined renewable energy policy and …