William J. Barber II
is the President of Repairers of the Breach, Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, Bishop with the College of Affirming Bishops and Faith Leaders, Visiting Professor at Union Theological Seminary, and coauthor of Revive Us Again: Vision and Action in Moral Organizing.
Thomas Baxter
is a high school principal in rural Ohio. He publishes this essay under a pseudonym.
Lesly-Marie Buer
is an applied medical anthropologist and author of the upcoming book Rx Appalachia. She is the data manager at Choice Health Network in Knoxville, Tennessee.