Author Bios

Jermel Shim is a retired mechanical engineer who has embarked on a new career as an author.  Following his retirement in 2010, he embraced his passion for politics and …

Levana Saxon is an organizer and educator with the Practicing Freedom Collective, using participatory action research, popular education, theater and creative action to generate community-led change. She’s also an …

Nemat Sadat is a graduate student in the creative writing program at Kellogg College at the University of Oxford. He lives in New York City where he is working …

Michael Northrop is program director at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

Marjorie Elizabeth Wood is an economic policy associate at the Institute for Policy Studies and the Managing Editor of Inequality.org. IPS-dc.org

Cayman Kai is currently an intern at the CODEPINK Washington, DC office. She is a sophomore at Northeastern University in Boston majoring in International Affairs and Political Science.

Areeba Kamal is the Roosevelt Institute | Campus Network Northeast New Chapters Coordinator. She is a sophomore at Mount Holyoke College, where she studies International Relations, Mandarin Chinese and Computer …

Jennifer Bjorhus is an enterprise reporter in the Star Tribune’s business section covering banking and consumer finance. 

Emily B.R. Rodriguez is a union staffer from Philadelphia. She traveled to El Salvador with the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador as a 2014 election observer.