Author Bios

Keith Brower Brown is a member of United Auto Workers Local 2865 at the University of California and was a delegate to the 2023 UAW convention.

Amy Nagopaleen is a writer and activist in Queens, New York, where she can be found defending Drag Story Hour NYC with a band of traveling ukulele players. Her …

Peggy Chen is a journalist and reporter who covers climate, policy, and culture. Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, her work has appeared in the LUNA Collective, Overachiever, Alliance Magazine, …

Max Graham is a Food and Agriculture Fellow at Grist.

Mecca Monarch is a chronically ill butterfly of Middle Eastern descent living on Turtle Island.

Jasmine Corazon is a Next Leaders intern at the Institute for Policy Studies.

Dave Kamper is a labor organizer and writer in Minnesota. He helped form the Graduate Employees Organization at the University of Illinois in 2002.

Cody Bloomfield is a journalist covering policing and protest. They are the former communications director of Defending Rights & Dissent.

Zoya Teirstein is a staff writer at Grist.