Author Bios

Carlos Maza has been a researcher at Equality Matters since February of 2011. He graduated from Wake Forest University in 2010 with a degree in political science.

Thelma Mejía has been working for IPS since 1987, when she started collaborating with the agency on subjects relating to childhood and gender. She took part in the Programa …

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.