Author Bios

Makani Themba is Executive Director of The Praxis Project.

Nicholas C. Arguimbau is an environmental and death penalty lawyer who has come home to rural Massachusetts after 34 years in California.

George Pauk, MD, from Phoenix, is a retired physician most recently in practice with the Indian Health Service. He is active with the Alliance for Global Justice, Nicaragua Network, …

Sudeshna Chowdhury is the United Nations Correspondent at IPS Inter Press Service.

Larry Everest has covered the Middle East and Central Asia for over 20 years for the Revolutionary Worker newspaper and other publications. He traveled to Iran in 1979 and …

Cydney Hargis writes for the Inter Press Service News Agency. She is based out of Washington DC.

Robin D. G. Kelley, who teaches at UCLA, is the author of the remarkable biography Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (2009) and most recently Africa Speaks, America …

Pat Jankowski is a registered nurse at McLaren Macomb Hospital in Mt. Clemens, Michigan, and a member of OPEIU Local 40.

Lydia Lim is a Reporting Intern at Inter Press Service and a Senior Writer at The Daily Princetonian.