Author Bios

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 Socialism...Seriously: A Brief Guide to Surviving the 21st Century and Why Bad Governments Happen to Good People.

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.