Authors

Andrew Giambrone Andrew Giambrone

Born and raised in New York City, Andrew Giambrone is a rising junior at Yale majoring in English and French. He is a staff reporter for the Yale Daily News who covers admissions, alumni and financial aid, and also holds editorial positions for the Yale Undergraduate Law Review and the Yale Historical Review. In the past, he has interned for both the US Attorney’s Office and the United Nations.This summer, he will be studying French in Paris and then working for the Yale Club of New York City.

Oct 19, 2012

Audrey Yu Audrey Yu

Audrey Yu is a senior at Booker T. Washington High School, living with her two mothers in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She hopes to attend a four-year private university in New York City. Her passions are art and history.

Oct 19, 2012

Tess Saperstein Tess Saperstein

Tess Saperstein is a junior at Dreyfoos School of the Arts in Boca Raton, Florida. She enjoys debate, writing for her school newspaper, and Tae Kwon Do.

Oct 19, 2012

Erik Lampmann Erik Lampmann

  Erik Lampmann is a rising junior and Boatwright Scholar studying Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law (PPEL) and French at the University of Richmond (VA). He co-founded UR’s chapter of the Roosevelt Institute, a progressive think-tank, during his first-year and grew the organization through roundtable discussions, policy writing initiatives, as well as a coalition-based social justice documentary film festival. Erik also serves as interim President of the Student Alliance for Sexual Diversity and as the University’s LGBTQ Student Coordinator. He has published on LGBTQ tax policy and presented on equal justice organizing at the national level. He has also worked as an intern for Equality Pennsylvania and received intersectional campus organizing training from the Young People For (YP4) Fellowship program of the People for the American Way Foundation. More recently, Erik has worked with the OpportunityNation coalition on economic justice and social mobility in the United States. Outside of his activism and academic scholarship, Erik enjoys loose-leaf tea, the “West Wing,” and vegetarian cooking.

Oct 19, 2012

Hillary Abe Hillary Abe

Hillary Abe works for College Horizons, a national non-profit focused on facilitating the higher education of Native American, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian youth. Based in Flagstaff, Arizona, Hillary is also a videographer and an aspiring filmmaker, and you can see more of his work here.

Oct 18, 2012

F. Frederic Fouad F. Frederic Fouad

F. Frederic (Ric) Fouad is a corporate attorney and child welfare advocate. Follow @ricfouad on Twitter. 

Oct 17, 2012

Charles North Charles North

Charles North has published ten books of poems, the most recent of which, What It Is Like: New and Selected Poems, headed NPR's list of Best Poetry Books of 2011. He is Poet-in-Residence at Pace University, NYC.

Oct 16, 2012

Kendra Klein Kendra Klein

Kendra Klein is completing her PhD in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley.

Oct 12, 2012

Sophia Kerby Sophia Kerby

Sophia Kerby is a Special Assistant with Progress 2050 at the Center for American Progress.

Oct 11, 2012

Evan Leatherwood Evan Leatherwood

Evan Leatherwood directs communications for the Bernard L. Schwartz Center for Media, Public Policy, and Education at Fordham University.

Oct 11, 2012

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