Author Bios

Patricio Barnuevo, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs

Jon Swan, a former senior editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, has written on environmental issues for several publications.

Chip Gibbons is policy director of Defending Rights & Dissent. A journalist and researcher focusing on the U.S. national security state, Chip is currently working on The Imperial Bureau, forthcoming from …

Cole Harrison is Communications Director of Massachusetts Peace Action, a statewide grassroots organization working to develop the sustained political power to foster a more just and peaceful U.S. foreign …

Anis Shivani's books in the last year include Soraya: Sonnets, Whatever Speaks on Behalf of Hashish: Poems and Karachi Raj: A Novel. Assessing Literary Writing in the Twenty-First Century comes out in early 2017. His …

Charmie Gholson is a national drug policy reform advocate, a working journalist, ghost writer and mother. She is founder of Michigan Moms United to End the War on Drugs- …

Executive Director of National Nurses United

President, People For the American Way

Samantha Winslow is co-director of Labor Notes.