Whitney Barkley Whitney Barkley
Whitney Barkley serves as a staff attorney at the Mississippi Center for Justice, where she focuses on protecting Mississippians from predatory for-profit colleges and helping high school students access affordable financial aid. Prior to joining the Center, Barkley spent summers interning at the Equal Rights Center and Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, where she worked on projects involving payday lending, fair housing and election protection.
Jul 11, 2013
Victoria Law Victoria Law
Victoria Law is a writer, photographer and mother. She is the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggle of Incarcerated Women (PM Press 2009) and the co-editor of Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities (PM Press 2012).
Jul 10, 2013
Matthew Harwood Matthew Harwood
Matthew Harwood is senior writer/editor with the ACLU. A TomDispatch regular, his work has been published by Al-Jazeera America, the American Conservative, the Columbia Journalism Review, the Guardian, Guernica, Reason, Salon, Truthout and the Washington Monthly. He also regularly reviews books for the Future of Freedom Foundation. Follow him on Twitter at @mharwood31.
Jul 9, 2013
Vincent Mersich Vincent Mersich
Vincent Mersich is a plaintiffs’ employment attorney in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Jul 8, 2013
Cheryl Harris Cheryl Harris
Cheryl Harris is professor of law at UCLA Law School and co-director of the Critical Race Studies Program.
Jul 8, 2013
Devon Carbado Devon Carbado
Devon Carbado is a professor of law and UCLA Law School and the co-author, with Mitu Gulati, of Acting White: Rethinking Race in Post-Racial America.
Jul 8, 2013
Katherine Franke Katherine Franke
Katherine Franke is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School.
Jul 3, 2013
Aviva Stahl Aviva Stahl
Aviva Stahl, a former Nation intern, is a Brooklyn-based independent journalist. She primarily writes about the intersection between the War on Terror and the prison industrial complex.
Jul 3, 2013
Michael Grabell, ProPublica Michael Grabell, ProPublica
Michael Grabell covers economic and labor issues for ProPublica. He has produced stories for the New York Times, USA Today, NPR and the CBS Evening News. His investigative work has included stories on the TSA, the Lance Armstrong doping allegations, chemicals stored near schools and neighborhoods, and a bus fire that killed 23 nursing home patients. Before joining ProPublica, Grabell was a reporter at The Dallas Morning News. He is the author of Money Well Spent?, a book about President Obama’s stimulus package and his efforts to revive the economy from the Great Recession.
Jul 1, 2013