Author Bios

Jim Burroughs, director, producer and cinematographer, has filmed on six continents, documenting wars, expeditions and historical events. Burroughs has just completed his first nonfiction book, ‘Blood on the Lens,’ …

Suzanne Bauman, co-producer/director of ‘Shadow of Afghanistan,’ is an Academy Award-nominated independent filmmaker who has made specials and series for PBS and the networks for over 30 years.

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 …