Author Bios

Ellen Leopold has been writing about the politics of cancer for 20 years. She is a member of Breast Cancer Action and has published two books on the subject: …

Jack A. Smith was editor of the Guardian -- for decades the nation's preeminent leftist newsweekly -- that closed shop in 1992. Smith now edits the Hudson Valley Activist …

Lyra Hill is a comics artist, filmmaker and graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She organizes Brain Frame, a series of performative comics readings, and …

Natalie Pompilio wrote this article for Making it Home, the Summer 2012 issue of YES! Magazine. Natalie is a freelance writer based in Philadelphia. She is the co-author of …

Shirin Sadeghi is an independent journalist and Middle East specialist with an emphasis on Iran, Pakistan and the Persian Gulf countries. Her other specialties are minorities in the United …

John Clay is an independent writer and researcher on democracy and the economy. He is founder of Democraticpromise.org and has been published in Truthout, Science & Society, Minnesota Employment Review, Workday …

Elisabeth Wehling is a political strategist and author working in the US and Europe. She is doing research in linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, on how politics …

Angi Becker Stevens is a fiction writer whose work has appeared in many print and online literary magazines, in addition to being anthologized in Best of the Web 2010 …

Ben Sherman is an intern for ThinkProgress.org. A native New Yorker and current undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin, Ben has worked both on campaigns and as …