Author Bios

Karolyn Smardz Frost is an award-winning Canadian historian, archaeologist, and author whose scholarship centers on African American and African Canadian history, the Underground Railroad, and Black freedom movements in the nineteenth century. She holds a PhD in history and has spent decades conducting archival research on both sides of the Canada-United States border. Frost is…

Sara Prot is a researcher specializing in media psychology and the developmental effects of digital technology on children and adolescents.

Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish-Iranian journalist, author, and human rights advocate who was detained for years in Australia’s offshore immigration detention system on Manus Island. His memoir No Friend but the Mountains, written entirely via text messages from detention, won the Victorian Prize for Literature.

Mark J. Easter is a rangeland ecologist and carbon scientist who spent decades measuring how landscapes absorb and release greenhouse gases across the American West. He is the author of The Blue Plate: A Food Lover’s Guide to Climate Chaos.

Craig Santos Perez is a Chamoru poet from Guam and professor at the University of Hawai’i. He is the author of the ongoing serial poetry project from Unincorporated Territory, a multi-volume ecopoetic and decolonial work blending personal lyric, colonial history, and environmental themes.

Robin Bernstein is the Dillon Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. She is the author of Freeman’s Challenge and other works on American cultural and racial history.

Rokhl Auerbach (1903-1976) was a Yiddish journalist, literary critic, and memoirist. She was one of only three surviving members of the Oyneg Shabes, the secret Warsaw Ghetto archive organized by Emanuel Ringelblum. After the war she emigrated to Israel, where she founded the witness testimony division at Yad Vashem.