Author Bios

Lisa Rudman is the executive director of Making Contact.

Michelle Fawcett Ph.D., is adjunct professor in the Media, Culture and Communications Department at New York University. She is currently traveling across the US covering the Occupy movement.

Roland Farris is a Canadian citizen who lectures in social sciences and humanities at a major Chinese university. He has been an active China researcher since 2008 and has …

Lester Brown has been called “the guru of the environmental movement” and ‘one of the world's most influential thinkers.’ In 1974 he founded the Worldwatch Institute, the first reserach …

Janelle Jones is a research assistant at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC.

Nathaniel Batchelder is a Vietnam veteran and has been director of thePeace House Oklahoma City since 1990 – a center for public education on justice, peace and environmental issues.

Lawrence Lessig is the Director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University, and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

George Lakey co-founded Earth Quaker Action Group which just won its five-year campaign to force a major US bank to give up financing mountaintop removal coal mining. Along with …