Author Bios

Josephine Simmons is a management consultant originally from Indiana and now living in London.

Mitchell Prothero is a McClatchy special correspondent.

Laurent Daloz is an alumnus of Williams College '62, Harvard '63 and '72, and is a grandfather of three. He is a senior fellow at the Whidbey Institute, a …

Sarah Kuck is a freelance writer and a graduate student in media studies at The New School.

Layne Hartsell is a research fellow at Foreign Policy In Focus.

Joseph Mayton is an American journalist based in Cairo, Egypt. He is a contributing editor with Occupy.com and a co-founder of OfCourseVegan.com. Follow him on Twitter:@jmayton

Ellen Lindeen, an Associate Professor of English at Waubonsee Community College which serves over 30,000 students in the western suburbs of Chicago, teaches composition and Shakespeare, and  two interdisciplinary …

Joe Emersberger was born in 1966 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, where he currently lives and works. He is an engineer and a  member of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union.

Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 3 million supporters, members and activists in over 150 countries and territories who campaign to end grave abuses of human …

Heather Gautney is the author of Protest and Organization in the Alternative Globalization Era (Palgrave) and an associate professor of sociology at Fordham University. In 2012-13, she served as …