Author Bios

Chad Sommer was a 2011 TFA corps member and taught 4th grade at Chicago’s Rudyard Kipling Elementary School. He was the first and only TFA corps member at the …

Rosana Cruz is the Associate Director of Voices of Formerly Incarcerated Persons. Rosana came to VOTE from her position as Co-Director of Safe Streets/Strong Communities. Previously Rosana worked with …

Amanda Ufheil-Somers is the assistant editor of Middle East Report, published by the Middle East Research and Information Project. MERIP.org

Zoe Brent is the Creative Director and Cuba Tour Coordinator for Food Sovereignty Tours. Zoe was Food Sovereignty Tours’ first program coordinator. She began developing the program in early …

Matt Canfield is a fifth-year PhD Candidate in Anthropology at New York University and an organizing committee member of GSOC-UAW.

Alice O'Connor  is author of Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy and the Poor in Twentieth Century US History. She is professor of history at the University of California …

Mary W Maxwell, PhD, LLB, can be emailed at her website ProsecutionforTreason.com. Her latest book, Fraud Upon the Court, explains how to use the Writ of Error Coram Nobis …

Kate Zen is a first-generation Chinese immigrant, civic technologist, and co-founder of Red Canary Song. A former organizer with the Street Vendor Project, they focus on informal and gig …

Renée Feltz is a New York-based journalist covering immigration and the criminal legal system. She is a former producer for the daily independent news hour, Democracy Now!