Author Bios

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 …

Alexander Means is Assistant Professor of Social and Psychological Foundations of Education at SUNY Buffalo State. He is the author of Schooling in the Age of Austerity (Palgrave Macmillan, …

Yosef Brody Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and the past president of Psychologists for Social Responsibility (PsySR). Follow him on Twitter @YosefBrody.