Author Bios

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 …

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.