Author Bios

Claudia Rowe wrote this article for It's Your Body, the Fall 2012 issue of YES! Magazine. Claudia has been an award-winning social issues journalist for more than 20 years. …

Zack Beauchamp is a Reporter/Blogger for ThinkProgress.org. He previously contributed to Andrew Sullivan's The Dish at Newsweek/Daily Beast, and has also written for Foreign Policy and Tablet magazines. Zack …

Mike David is a freelance writer, independent journalist and Occupy activist living in San Francisco, where he writes about social justice, the new paradigm, and a variety of other …

Danny Katch is a socialist, activist, and humor writer. He is the author of the forthcoming revised and expanded version of Socialism...Seriously: A Brief Guide to Surviving the 21st Century. 

Lani Gerson, born in Provo, Utah, now lives with her family in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Jan Goodwin is an author, award-winning journalist for national publications, and a Senior Fellow at Brandeis University's Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism.

As the inaugural Poet Laureate of Albuquerque, NM (2012-2014), Hakim Bellamy is a national and regional Poetry Slam Champion and holds three consecutive collegiate poetry slam titles at the …

Andalusia Knoll is a freelance multimedia journalist based in Mexico City. In addition to Truthout, she is a frequent contributor to VICE News, AJ+, Democracy Now! and Upside Down …