Author Bios

Former Vermont State Sen. Ben Ptashnik is a fusion movement strategist, and lifelong political organizer. He currently serves as executive director of the National Election Defense Coalition, and as …

Joe Lauria is a veteran foreign-affairs journalist based at the UN since 1990. He has written for the Boston Globe, the London Daily Telegraph, the Johannesburg Star, the Montreal …

Toshio Meronek is coauthor of the book Miss Major Speaks and host of the podcast Sad Francisco; they have reported on housing and queer politics for Truthout since 2013.

Josh Bivens joined the Economic Policy Institute in 2002. He is the author of Everybody Wins Except for Most of Us: What Economics Teaches About Globalization and has published …

Andrew Fieldhouse joined the Economic Policy Institute in June 2010 to work on fiscal policy and progressive budget reform. In July 2011, Andrew also began working on federal budget …

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 …