Author Bios

Matt Amaral is a writer and high school English teacher from the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a featured blogger at EducationNews.org, a leading international website for education …

P. L. Thomas, Associate Professor of Education (Furman University, Greenville SC), taught high school English in rural South Carolina before moving to teacher education. He is a column editor …

The Center for Popular Economics of Amherst, Massachusetts, has offered economics education for activists since 1978.

Collin Harris is a freelance writer and activist based in Portland, Oregon. He is launching MOSS Media in 2012, a grassroots media project using movements, music and media to …

Based in Seattle, Alex Brown covers environmental issues for Stateline. Prior to joining Stateline, Brown wrote for The Chronicle in Lewis County, Washington state.

Katherine Paul is associate director of the Organic Consumers Association.

Cynthia Phinney is a member of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 1837 in Maine and New Hampshire. She served as the labor representative on the Maine Citizen Trade Policy Commission …

Chris Marsden writes for the World Socialist Web Site.