Author Bios

Scott Parkin is an organizer with Rainforest Action Network and Rising Tide North America.

Hond joined Columbia Magazine in 2005, and became senior writer in 2007. He has published two novels and won several CASE awards for his magazine articles.

Critic, novelist and professor at the University of Massachusetts, Kirby Farrell is the author of ‘Post-Traumatic Culture’ and, most recently, ‘Berserk Style in American Culture’ (Palgrave 2011).

Karen Moutaataou is an actress in Greece.

James Boyce is Director of the Program on Development, Peacebuilding, and the Environment at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) and Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, …

Danny Glover is board member of the TransAfrica Forum. James Counts Early is a member of the political committee of the Regional Articulation of Afro-Descendants in Latin America and …

Philip Jacobson is a journalist with the Jakarta Globe, an English-language newspaper in Indonesia.

Miriam Wells is a British freelance journalist based in Medellín.

Doré Ripley is a lecturer at Cal State East Bay and an adjunct professor at Diablo Valley College. She specializes in intensive writing. You can visit her on the …

Jonathan Rosenblum is a union organizer and a member of the National Writers Union, and is Activist in Residence at the Center for Work and Democracy at Arizona State …