Author Bios

Athar Parvaiz has been an IPS contributor since 2008. Based in Srinagar, Indian Administered Kashmir, he writes about environment, health, human rights and development issues.

Erika L. Sánchez is a poet and writer living in Chicago. Her work has been published in Cosmopolitan for Latinas, NBCLatino, the Guardian, Salon, Rolling Stone, Al Jazeera and other …

Frances A. Chiu is writing a book on Thomas Paine's Rights of Man for Routledge. A graduate of Oxford University, she teaches literature and history at The New School.

Christopher Fisher is an independent Sonoma County journalist whose work has appeared at Civil Eats, Grist, and the Petaluma Bounty blog. He is also the Vice President of the recently reborn Petaluma Grange, one …

Sam Carrigan is a writer from Virginia.

Valerie Rose Brinton is a depth psychologist at Fillmore's Wellness Center in the Santa Clara River valley of Southern California. Her research on the transpersonal nature of post traumatic …

Justin Doolittle is a freelance writer.

Andrew Elrod is a writer living in New York.

Bethania Palma Markus is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist.