The Iowa Department of Corrections is a state agency operating prisons in Iowa. It has its headquarters in Des Moines.
Urvashi Vaid is an American LGBT rights activist.
Dollars & Sense is a magazine focusing on economics from a progressive perspective, published by Dollars & Sense, Inc, which also publishes textbooks in the same genre.
YES! is a nonprofit, independent publisher of solutions journalism. YES! was founded by David Korten and Sarah van Gelder; Christine Hanna, founder and former co-director of Seattle Good Business Network, is the executive director.
Truthout is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit news organization which aims to provide independent reporting and commentary on a diverse range of social justice issues. Since they were founded in 2001, they have anchored their work in principles of accuracy, transparency, and independence from corporate influence and partisan forces.
Kathleen Falk is an American attorney, politician, and policymaker from Wisconsin who served as Dane County Executive from 1997 until 2011. In 2013, she was appointed Regional Director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Region Five.
Lisa Jervis is an American writer, editor, publisher, and information technology professional. She is one of the founding editors and publisher of Bitch Magazine, established in 1996.
Self was an American magazine for women that specializes in health, beauty, and style. Part of Condé Nast, Self had a circulation of 1,515,880 and a total audience of 5,282,000 readers, according to its corporate media kit in 2013. The editor-in-chief is Carolyn Kylstra. Self is based in the Condé Nast U.S. headquarters at 1 World Trade Center in New York, NY. In February 2017 the magazine became an online publication.
Prison Legal News (PLN) is a monthly American magazine and online periodical published since May 1990. It primarily reports on criminal justice issues and prison and jail-related civil litigation, mainly in the United States. It is a project of the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
The IBM Center for The Business of Government produces and disseminates thought leadership that focuses on public management issues facing government executives at all levels. According to its mission statement, the center seeks to connect public management research to practice in order to improve government effectiveness and performance. It does this by funding independent third-party research, publishing a bi-annual magazine, producing a weekly radio interview program, convening discussions with practitioners and academics, and hosting forums and various blogs and other online content.
Post Carbon Institute (PCI) is a think tank which provides information and analysis on climate change, energy scarcity, and other issues related to sustainability and long term community resilience. Its Fellows specialize in various fields related to the organization's mission, such as fossil fuels, renewable energy, food, water, and population. Post Carbon is incorporated as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization and is based in Corvallis, Oregon, United States.
Jeanne Woodford is the Executive Director of Death Penalty Focus. Previously, she served as the Undersecretary and Director of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and Warden of San Quentin State Prison, where she oversaw four executions.
Jennifer Pozner is an American author, intersectional feminist, media critic, and public speaker. In 1996, Pozner graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism, media criticism and women's studies from Hampshire College.
"Work Bitch" is a song recorded by American singer Britney Spears for her eighth studio album, Britney Jean (2013). It was written by Spears, William "will.i.am" Adams, Otto "Knows" Jettman, Sebastian Ingrosso, Anthony Preston and Ruth-Anne Cunningham. The song's production was handled by Ingrosso, Pasquale Verrigni, Jettman and Adams, while vocal production was done by Adams and Preston. "Work Bitch" made its premiere on September 15, 2013 on iHeartRadio and select Clear Channel radio stations and was released to digital retailers on September 17, 2013 by RCA Records as the lead single from the record alongside a clean version titled "Work Work".
Victoria Law, familiarly known as Vikki Law, is an anarchist activist, writer, freelance editor, photographer and mother.
Kay Ulanday Barrett is a published poet, performer, educator, food blogger, cultural worker, and transgender, gender non-conforming, and disability advocate based in New York and New Jersey, whose work has been showcased nationally and internationally. Barrett's writing and performance centers on the experience of queer, transgender, people of color, mixed race people, Asian, and Filipino community. The focus of their artistic work navigates multiple systems of oppression in the context of the U.S. They have also served on committees, organizations, and collectives in attempts to serve communities that desire self-determination. Their work and thoughts have been published in media such as Vogue Magazine, Them., Colorlines,Bitchmagazine, POOR Magazine, Curve magazine, The Huffington Post, and PBS News Hour. Their first poetry collection, When The Chant Comes was published by Topside Press in 2016. Their upcoming book, More Than Organs is slated to be published by Sibling Rivalry Press in the beginning of 2020.
Ann M. O'Leary is an American political advisor, lawyer, and nonprofit leader, who currently serves as Chief of Staff to California Governor Gavin Newsom. Earlier in her career, she served as a senior policy advisor in the Bill Clinton Administration and as legislative director to Senator Hillary Clinton. Following her federal government service, she helped establish multiple non-profit organizations promoting progressive policy related to income inequality, healthcare, education, and workforce development. She served as a senior policy advisor to Hillary Clinton's 2016 Presidential Campaign and as co-executive director of the Clinton-Kaine Transition Project. After the 2016 Presidential election, O'Leary became a partner at the Palo Alto office of Boies, Schiller, & Flexner, where her practice focused on strategic consulting and crisis management.
Heather Ann Thompson is an American historian, author, activist, college professor, and speaker from Detroit, Michigan. She won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in History for her work Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy.
The SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, also known as SisterSong, is a national activist organization dedicated to reproductive justice for women of color. The non-profit defines reproductive justice as the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities.
