Author Bios

Thomas Hintze is an activist, writer and photographer from New York. He is a frequent contributor to Alternet and Waging Nonviolence, where he covers civil liberties and sometimes reviews …

Fran Moreland Johns is a freelance writer, activist and author of Perilous Times: An inside look at abortion before – and after – Roe v Wade. 

Samantha Sarra is a journalist and activist and one of the principal investigators on Bonding Through Bars, an International Research Roundtable at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies …

Alan Suderman is a reporter for the Consider the Source project, where he focuses on the influence of money in state politics. He joined the Center 2013 after covering …

Ben Wieder is the Computer Assisted Reporter for the Consider the Source project, which tracks the influence of money on state and federal politics. He worked previously at Stateline …

Jim Morris is a senior reporter and editor at the Center for Public Integrity and co-leader of the environment and labor team. A journalist since 1978, Morris has won …

Diane is a journalist and communications consultant.  She was a newspaper reporter for many years in Seattle and the San Francisco Bay Area, and now lives in Everett, Wash.

Elizabeth Davis is president of the Washington Teachers’ Union.

Saadia Faruqi is an interfaith activist, editor of Interfaith Houston and trainer of American Muslim issues. Follow her on Twitter @saadiafaruqi.