Author Bios

Tom Diaz was formerly Democratic Counsel to the Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice of the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. He worked for then-Rep. Charles …

Caleb Stewart Rossiter is the director of the American Exceptionalism Media Project and an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. A former congressional staffer and director of …

Rebecca Burns, an assistant editor at In These Times, holds an masters from the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, where her research focused on …

Zia Swim is an environmentalist, activist and engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is currently a fellow at Truthout doing development work and environmental journalism research.

Nick Surgey is the director of research at the Center for Media and Democracy, joining the team in March 2013.

Douglas Jamiel is a freelance writer in the Portland, Oregon/Vancouver, Washington, area. His work has appeared in the Colorado Labor Advocate, the Rocky Mountain News and Ezine.

James Cersonsky is a labor and education reporter and an editor at StudentNation. He directs an action research program connecting students with neighborhood history. Find him on Twitter @cersonsky.