Author Bios

Timothy Karr is the senior director of strategy at Free Press Action. Over the past 30 years he’s worked as a photojournalist, correspondent and editor for numerous outlets, including …

Matthew Filipowicz, the host of the Matthew Filipowicz Show, is a comedian, cartoonist and satirist. His work has been featured on CNN, NPR, PBS, HBO, BBC, Ain't It Cool …

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.