Dissent runs in my family. My great grandfather made bootleg gin during Prohibition. My father protested the Vietnam War in his early twenties. My grandmother spoke truth to power when the ministers at our church started preaching who to vote for. I’ve tried to carry on that legacy in my own way, including nonviolence work with Palestinian youth in the mid-2000s and showing up in the United States when I’ve believed democracy was under threat. But some of the most important