Author Bios

Meher is a CMD fellow and graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Charles Redfern is a veteran journalist and pastor, with over twenty years' experience in conflict transformation and organizational healing. His current writing focuses on the intersection of religion, culture, …

Morris Berman’s latest book is Why America Failed.

Benjamin Woodard is a Reporter/Producer covering Chicago's Far North Side. A Pacific Northwest native, he joined DNAinfo Chicago after graduating with a degree in Visual Journalism from Western Washington …

Adeshina Emmanuel comes to The Chicago Reporter from DNAinfo Chicago, where he covered the city's Uptown and Andersonville neighborhoods for two action-packed years, reporting about everything from crime, politics …

Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They're Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of Christ's Ventriloquists: The Event that Created …

Gwen Y Fortune is a retired social science-history professor, novelist and the author of Growing Up Nigger Rich.

Mychal Denzel Smith is a Knobler fellow at The Nation Institute and a contributing writer for The Nation magazine. He has also written for The New York Times, The …

Inés Benítez is a contributor to Inter Press Service news.

Laura-Anne has spent many years working on farms and with agriculture and food organizations in Guatemala, New York State, and California. She holds a doctorate in geography from the …