Author Bios

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 …

Keely Larson is the KFF Health News fellow for the UM Legislative News Service, a partnership of the University of Montana School of Journalism, the Montana Newspaper Association and …

Priscilla Grim (she/her) is a mom, comrade, activist, writer, digital strategist and Nuyorican based in Brooklyn, New York. Her involvement with movement media teams has included the Occupy Wall …

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 …