Author Bios

Yasmeen Alamiri is an Iraqi-American journalist working in Washington DC, covering politics and policy. She has written extensively about foreign policy and the White House, while her work has …

Union attorney Robert M. Schwartz is the author of Just Cause: A Union Guide to Winning Discipline Cases, where the new seven tests, and much more, are laid out …

Michael Mello is a freelance writer based in Tucson, Ariz. He is a former staff reporter for the Orange County Register.

Patrick McCurdy is an assistant professor in the department of communication at University of Ottawa, Canada. He is the co-editor of the newly published book Beyond WikiLeaks: Implications for …

Paul Engler is the director of the Center for the Working Poor in Los Angeles, and a co-founder of the Momentum Training, and coauthor, with Mark Engler, of This Is …

Scott Nelson is an attorney at Public Citizen. Nelson was the lead counsel on Public Citizen's amicus brief supporting the respondents, Italian Colors Restaurant.

Carey Shenkman is a constitutional lawyer and counsel for the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Follow him on Twitter: @CareyShenkman.

Nerita Oeiras is a producer for The Real News Network.

Colin Jenkins is founder, editor, and Social Economics Department chair at the Hampton Institute.