Author Bios

Alexis Baden-Mayer is the Political Director of the Organic Consumers Fund. Follow Alexis on Twitter.

Rachel is a writer and activist living in Brooklyn.

Sam Jewler can be reached on twitter at @luddofthefuture and as part of @occupythevotedc.

Dr. Carol Olander was Director of SNAP Research and Analysis at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service and a top official there for 31 years.

Elizabeth Goldstein is president of the California State Parks Foundation.

Molly Knefel is a writer, comic and co-host of Radio Dispatch, a thrice-weekly internet radio show. She also teaches drama after school.

Jessica Silver-Greenberg is a reporter at The New York Times.