Author Bios

Amanda Zamora is senior engagement editor at ProPublica. Previously, she spent more than nine years as a digital producer and editor at The Washington Post.

Vanessa Rancaño is a host and producer at Making Contact.

Peter Montgomery is a senior fellow at People For the American Way Foundation where he leads the organization’s research and writing on the Religious Right.

Nicole Nguyen is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Her research interests include national security and US public schooling, participatory action research, …

Katherine McFate is the President and CEO of the Center for Effective Government, a nonprofit public interest organization.

Marina Sitrin is a writer, student, teacher, lawyer, dreamer and militant. She currently shares her time between Berlin, New York, Greece and Argentina. She is the co-author of They …

Kate Aronoff is a writing fellow at In These Times covering the politics of climate change, the White House transition and the resistance to Trump's agenda. Follow her on …

Joris Leverink is an Istanbul-based freelance writer and an editor for ROAR Magazine. Follow him on Twitter @Jorislever.

Thorsten J. Pattberg (PhD, Peking University) is the author of The East-West Dichotomy, and currently a Visiting Fellow at The Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of …