is a Staff Attorney at the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. He litigates prison, jail, and immigration detention conditions class action lawsuits in federal court and performs advocacy on issues of mass incarceration, prison privatization, and immigration detention. He is a lead author of the 2014 ACLU report Warehoused and Forgotten: Immigrants […]
is a Professor and the Ph.D. program director in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo. His research focuses on community development, the nonprofit sector, community-based organizations, education reform, and inequality in inner city housing markets. He has authored several books and articles, including his most recent book, Affordable Housing […]
is the Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also a professor of history. He is the author of several books, most recently […]
is a co-founder and Senior Vice President of Third Way.
is an assistant professor of history at Claremont McKenna College and the author of Don’t Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party.
was Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Justice Department from 2009-2011 and is currently the Advocacy Director for Voting Rights and Democracy at the Open Society Policy Center.
is Professor of Health Law, Policy, and Management at the Boston University School of Public Health, where he has taught health care finance, regulation and planning, management, and introductory courses since 1983. He’s currently investigating causes and effects of urban hospital closings in 52 U.S. cities over the past 75 years. You can find his […]
has served as the executive director of Health Access California, the statewide health care consumer advocacy coalition, for nearly 15 years. Wright led California’s coalition effort to help pass the Affordable Care Act, as well as state efforts to implement and improve it, and other campaigns to win key patient protections and coverage expansions. This […]
is the author of three books on the Olympic Games, most recently Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics. A Fulbright research fellow in Brazil in fall 2015, he teaches political science at Pacific University in Oregon. His website is www.julesboykoff.org. Portions of this article were adapted from his book Power Games.
is Assistant Professor and Academic Director of Urban Studies at the Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, City University of New York. He is also the author of Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment (Harvard University Press).