About Ada Ferrer Ada Ferrer is a Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University, where she has taught since 1995. Born in Cuba and raised in the US, she has been traveling to and conducting research on the island regularly since 1990. Where to find Ada WebsiteTwitter Cuba: An…

About Alex Renton Alex Renton is a British-Canadian journalist and the author of Blood Legacy, Stiff Upper Lip, and Planet Carnivore. His latest book is Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family’s Story of Slavery Check out the book’s website. Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family’s Story of Slavery Through the story of his own family’s…

About Scott Ellsworth Scott Ellsworth is an American writer and the author of four books. DEATH IN A PROMISED LAND was the first comprehensive history of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre. “This splendid book belongs in any library serving readers in American history,” Library Journal. “A historian with the soul of a poet” is how…

About Michael Moss Michael Moss was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2010 and was a finalist for the prize in 2006 and 1999. He is also the recipient of a Gerald Loeb Award and an Overseas Press Club citation. Before coming to The New York Times, he was a reporter for The…

About Chris Tomlinson Chris Tomlinson is the business columnist for the Houston Chronicle, focusing on energy, business, and policy. Until April 2014, he was the supervisory correspondent for The Associated Press in Austin, responsible for state government and political reporting in Texas. From 2007-2009, he was an international investigative reporter for the AP working in…

About Erwin Chemenrisky Prior to assuming this position he was the founding dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Law, and a professor at Duke Law School, University of Southern California Law School, and DePaul Law School. He is the author of 12 books and over 250 law review articles. He is a…