Author Bios

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 …

Arthur Goldwag's most recent book is ‘The New Hate: A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right.’

Pauline Lipman is professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and director of the Collaborative for Equity and Justice in Education. A long-time Chicagoan …

Maryam Jamshidi is an attorney and the founder and editor-in-chief of Muftah.org.