Author Bios

Timothy Nonn is a member of Occupy Petaluma since October 2011. He has published poems, essays and books on the relationship between spirituality and activism. As a community organizer …

Jacob Boas is a Portland, Oregon-based historian who has written extensively about the Holocaust.

Elizabeth Royte is the author of Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash and Bottlemania: How Water Went On Sale and Why We Bought It.

Christopher Angelo Ponzi  is the young co-founder and creative messaging director of the anti-partisan nonprofit Rebellious Truths (www.rebellioustruths.org), popular with the Millennial generation with over 3 million views on YouTube and 37K on …

Sam Bickersteth is the Chief Executive of the Climate and Development Knowledge Network, www.cdkn.org.

Norman Finkelstein is the author of many books on the Israel-Palestine conflict, most recently, Knowing Too Much: Why the American Jewish Romance with Israel is Coming to an End, …

Keesha Gaskins is Senior Counsel in the Brennan Center's Democracy Program.

Sundeep Iyer the Brennan Center's Principal Quantitative Analyst.