Author Bios

Richard Schiffman is the author of two biographies as well as a journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, The Washington Post, The Christian Science …

Melissa Sanchez is a reporter at ProPublica Illinois, where she has been looking at how ticket debt affects the poor. Follow her on Twitter: @msanchezMIA.

Ann Wright served 29 years in the US Army and Army Reserve and retired as a Colonel.  She is also a former US diplomat who resigned in 2003 in …

Greg Kaufmann is the editor of TalkPoverty.org and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. He is a former poverty correspondent for The Nation magazine.

Andy Kopsa is a freelance writer who has written for publications such as The Revealer, Alternet, The American Independent and Westword. Andy focuses her writing on the federal funding …

Erik Hoffner is a freelance photojournalist whose writing appears in National Geographic NewsWatch, Earth Island Journal, Grist, World Ark and Yale Environment 360. His photographic work can be seen …

Zach Bernstein is an intern for ThinkProgress.org. A native Washingtonian, Zach recently graduated from American University with a B.A. in Political Science. In addition to volunteering during the 2004 …

Michael Shuman is research director for Cutting Edge Capital in Oakland, economic-development director for the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), and a fellow of the Post Carbon …