Emily K Hobson Editor & Author

Dan Berger is a professor of comparative ethnic studies at the University of Washington, Bothell, and the author of the award-winning Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era, among other titles. He writes regularly for Black Perspectives, Truthout, and the Washington Post and has published articles in several scholarly journals. He is a founding coordinator of the digital archive Washington Prison History Project.

Emily K. Hobson is associate professor of history and gender, race, and identity at the University of Nevada, Reno, and the author of Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left. Her work has appeared in the Journal of American History, the Journal of Transnational American Studies, and several anthologies, as well as through magazines, podcasts, and radio. She serves as co-chair of the national organization the Committee for LGBT History.