Author Bios

Sam Pothecary is a writer for the Argentina Independent.

Doug Kenrick is the author of The Rational Animal: How evolution made us smarter than we think, in which he joins marketing professor Vladas Griskevicius to examine human decision-making …

Gabriel Prado is a student.

Ajenai Hampton is a high school student in San Francisco. She lives in the Sunset District with her mother and her grandmother.

Kristy Leissle is a writer and professor of Global Studies at the University of Washington, Bothell, where she researches the cocoa-chocolate trade.

Balbir K. Singh is a PhD Candidate in English at the University of Washington. She is at work on her dissertation on the Sikh diaspora in the U.S. and …

Ethan Nuss is an organizer with the Tar Sands Blockade and a volunteer with Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (TEJAS).

Nicole Aschoff is a sociologist and writer living in the Boston area. She is a contributing editor at Jacobin magazine and she blogs at thisgameisrigged.wordpress.com.

Claudia Pompa is a Paraguayan consultant with extensive experience in development and political risk analysis. She has worked for several international organizations and consulting companies in Asia, Latin America, and …

Nicole Braun teaches sociology and is an adjunct professor.