Sharon Kyle

Lily Minh Wass is a public health researcher, independent journalist, and creative writer. She has held positions at Cornell University, CUNY School of Public Health, and The Vaccine Confidence Project. Her work explores the psychology of disinformation and the algorithmic spread of ideas, which she writes about for Repro Uncensored.

Bill Gallegos is the former executive director of Communities for a Better Environment (a California environmental justice organization), a longtime Chicano activist, and a member of the editorial board of The Nation.

As Michelle Obama, the former president and others celebrated a historic milestone in Chicago, a deeper truth emerged: democracy is not built by heroes alone but by ordinary people willing to turn America's ideals into reality.

Eveline Dowling is a political scientist with a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, specializing in public opinion, political behavior, survey research, and election reform. Her research on political polarization analyzes whether independents have an in-group attachment to other nonpartisans, similar to partisans.

Ben Poston is a former investigative reporter at the Los Angeles Times. A three-time Livingston Award finalist, Poston has won several national awards, including a George Polk Award, a Gerald Loeb Award and Sigma Delta Chi’s award for 1st Amendment reporting. He worked on “Behind the Badge,” a series that detailed the flawed hiring practices by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

Katherine Dolan is a writer, editor, and researcher at the Independent Media Institute from Dunedin, New Zealand. She has held previous posts as a senior writer for Fairfax Media Custom Publishing in New Zealand and Lifestyle Magazine in Moscow, and as a copy editor for the U.S. news site NSFW Corp.

Ron Guier has been incarcerated for seven years. He is an active member of his prison community as a member of the Concerned Lifers Organization, which includes those serving long-term or life sentences, community advocates, sponsors, and short-term prisoners who organize for positive change inside and out of the prison. He is also a board member for the prison runners group and a Certified Peer Support Specialist and Peer Support Coordinator in the prison's Peer 2 Peer program. You can reach him for comments at securus.net, Ron Guier 414747, Washington Corrections Center.

A Conversation and Celebration of Cuba and its 2022 Family Code, Equality, and the Changing Meaning of Family

V. James DeSimone has been a powerful leader in civil rights and employment law for over 35 years, representing plaintiffs who have suffered improper use of force by law enforcement in various Californian jurisdictions. DeSimone is a strong supporter of social justice. He was on the joint Civil Rights Committee for the National Police Accountability Project and Consumer Attorneys of California which was instrumental in getting legislation passed to improve state civil rights laws.

The historian and author of For Better and Worse explains how economic insecurity, racism and inherited gender roles undermine relationships—and why tradwife nostalgia offers the wrong cure.