Author Bios

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 …

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 …