Colleen Scerpella is a research assistant with the Center for Media and Democracy. Her previous research experiences centered around political violence, right-wing extremism, and humanitarian coordination. She graduated from Boston College in 2023 with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and International Studies.
Nancy MacLean is the William H. Chafe distinguished professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University and author most recently of ‘Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America’. Prof. MacLean serves on the board of the Center for Media and Democracy.
Alice Herman is a contributor with The Center for Media and Democracy and The Guardian. Previously, she reported on labor and the workplace as a Leonard C. Goodman investigative reporting fellow with In These Times. Hailing from Madison, Wisconsin, Herman has covered Wisconsin politics for local and national political outlets including The Progressive. She holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Grinnell College.
Mike Lux is the founder and board president of American Family Voices, a progressive nonprofit advocating for working- and middle-class families on pocket-book economic issues.
Juliana Broad is a writer and researcher who works on issues related to labor, science, and democracy. With the Center for Media and Democracy, she focuses on the corporate interest groups coordinating attacks on workers’ rights, campaign finance transparency, and access to reproductive healthcare, among other issues. She has also worked with unions as a labor organizer and strategic researcher in a variety of sectors, including higher education, healthcare, and property services. She earned a master’s degree in the history and philosophy of science at the University of Cambridge as a Gates Scholar. Her scholarship has been published in or is forthcoming from the peer-reviewed journals History of the Human Sciences, Medical History, and History of Science.
John McCracken is an environmental journalist based in Wisconsin and a 2022 Midwest Reporting Fellow at Grist.
Alleen Brown is an independent investigative journalist. She has reported extensively on the intersections between environmental crises and racism, poverty, immigration, and violence against women. She specializes in covering the ways the climate crisis impacts criminalized populations.
Alyssa Bowen is managing editor and senior researcher for the progressive watchdog group True North Research where she tracks and writes about dark money in U.S. politics. She received her Ph.D. in history from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2021 and has bylines in The Nation, Rewire News Group, Ms. Magazine, and Truthout.