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Micco Caporale

is a freelance culture writer. She writes and produces “Bad Reputation: A Women’s Rock History Podcast.”

Julia Fine

is a climate activist and graduate student in linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Lynda Barry

is an associate professor of art and Discovery Fellow at University of Wisconsin Madison. She is the multiple award-winning author of The Freddie Stories, One! Hundred! Demons!, The! Greatest! of!

Austin Price

is an independent writer in the Bay Area and reports on food, wildlife, and public health.

Ericka Bocknek

is the Principal Investigator of the Family Resilience Lab and Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at Wayne State University. She studies social emotional development in young children in the context

Michele Bigley

When not delighting over her sprouting garden, award-winning journalist Michele Bigley is writing a book about taking her sons to meet the change-makers working to protect the planet from, and

Nick Keppler

wrote this article for 100 Days in Appalachia.

Kristine Bowman

is a professor of Law and Education Policy at Michigan State University.

Nataliya Braginsky

is a Ukrainian immigrant who owes her life and this piece to her parents’ survival of disasters. A public high school history teacher, she lives in New Haven with her

Stan Cox

is the author of many books, including The Path to a Livable Future: A New Politics to Fight Climate Change, Racism, and the Next Pandemic, The Green New Deal and

Doniga Markegard

is a wildlife tracker, regenerative rancher, speaker, and author. Her teen years in nature school started her on a path that led to a career in animal tracking and then

Jessica J. González

is co-CEO at Free Press and Free Press Action, and the co-founder of the Change the Terms coalition.

Gaurav Laroia

is a senior policy counsel at Free Press.

Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil

is a freelance reporter based in Oakland, California and a regular contributor to the California Health Report. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, NBC News, the Orange

Tom Nolan

is a Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology at Emmanuel College.

Carly Nairn

is a freelance journalist based in San Francisco. Her work has been published with Guernica, National Geographic, and Sierra magazine, among others.

Sean O’Leary

is a Senior Policy Analyst with the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. Since joining the Center in 2010, Sean’s research and advocacy focus has been on working family

Claudia Boyd-Barrett

is a longtime journalist based in southern California. She writes on topics related to health care, social justice, and maternal and child well-being. Her investigative stories on access to mental

Tori Bateman

is the policy advocacy coordinator at the American Friends Service Committee. 

Noam Perry

is the economic activism associate at the American Friends Service Committee.
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