Author Bios

Kenneth Foster is a Texan prisoner and former death-row inmate.

Elizabeth G. Hines is AlterNet's Education Editor, and the co-author of the best-selling biography, Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire.

Richard Smith is an economic historian. He wrote his UCLA history Ph.D. thesis on the transition to capitalism in China and held post-docs at the East-West Center in Honolulu …

The Green Shadow Cabinet includes nearly 100 prominent scientists, community and labor leaders, physicians, cultural workers, veterans, and more, and provides an ongoing opposition and alternative voice to the …

Jason Flores-Williams is a writer, federal attorney and founder of the Whistleblower Defense League.

Brian Van Slyke and Taliesin Nyala work at The Toolbox for Education and Social Action, a worker cooperative that develops and distributes resources for social and economic change, such …

Niall McLaren is an Australian psychiatrist, author and critic, although not necessarily in that order.

Marla Kilfoyle is executive director of the Badass Teachers Association and Melissa Tomlinson is the assistant executive director of the Badass Teachers Association. Kilfoyle has been a teacher in …

Claire Sandberg is an organizer and writer in Oakland, Calif. You can follow her on Twitter at @clairesandberg.

Ben Strubel is a writer for New Economic Perspectives.