Author Bios

Dream Hampton has written about culture for 20 years. She's a mother, an activist and an award-winning filmmaker. She lives in Detroit. Read more: https://www.momsrising.org/blog/the-death-of-twinkie/#ixzz2Cmifbje8 Read more: https://www.momsrising.org/blog/the-death-of-twinkie/#ixzz2Cmifbje8 Dream …

Jessica Pieklo is a former litigator who now writes and teaches for a living. Her areas of expertise include constitutional law, health law and business law. She teaches a …

Contributing writer at The Michigan Citizen 

John Halle teaches Music Theory at Bard College Conservatory of Music. A former Green Party alderman from New Haven, his political writings have appeared in Counterpunch, New Politics, the …

Rochelle Sharpe wrote this article under a MetLife Foundation Journalists in Aging Fellowship, a collaboration of New America Media and the Gerontological Society of America. Lisa Chedekel of the …

Reverend Simon Moyle is a Baptist minister and non-violent educator and activist with Pace e Bene Australia. He works at Urban Seed, a Christian organisation working with some of …

Erin L. McCoy wrote this article for YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas and practical actions. Erin worked as a newspaper reporter and photographer …

Claudia Buck is the Assistant Business Editor for the Sacramento Bee.

Matt Pearce is a journalist for the Los Angeles Times. [email protected]