Author Bios

Research Associate at The Council on Hemispheric Affairs

Rebecca Carter is a freelance music journalist and photographer with work published in Relix Magazine, Blurt, AMP and Rockabilly Magazine. You can view her portfolio at www.wix.com/carterebecca/portfolio.

Hannah Sassaman is an organizer living and working in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As the longtime Campaign Director at the Prometheus Radio Project, Hannah helped lead and design the grassroots organizing and …

Stephen Lerner is a labor and community organizer and the architect of the Justice for Janitors campaign.

Susan Ohanian, a longtime teacher, runs a website of resistance from Vermont.

Dan Massoglia (@jujueyeball) is a law student, activist and journalist in Chicago.

Martin A. Lee is the author of  Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana – Medical, Recreational and Scientific (Scribner, August 2012). He is the cofounder of the media …

Nama Khalil is a contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus.

Giorgio Cafiero is a contributor to Foreign Policy in Focus.

Wendy Ruderman is a journalist for the Philadelphia Daily News. She won with Barbara Laker the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.