Author Bios

Elizabeth served as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East in the National Intelligence Council before retiring in August 2010 after a 27-year career in the US government. …

Ashley Sanders is a long-time community organizer and activist. She currently works with Peaceful Uprising to fight for climate justice and with Move to Amend to abolish corporate personhood. …

Melissa Harris-Perry is a professor of political science at Tulane University, where she is founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Project on Gender, Race, and Politics in the …

Blanche Richardson heads the 40-year-old Marcus Book Stores in San Francisco and Oakland, California, and is an editor, author and anthologist.

Olivia Ward has covered conflicts, politics and human rights from the former Soviet Union to the Balkans, Northern Ireland, the Middle East and South Asia, winning both national and …

Gina McGalliard is a full-time San Diego-based freelance writer, and has numerous credits in national, online and local publications, among them Wine Enthusiast, Sport Diver, @UCSD, Career World, Dance …

Rosa-Linda Fregoso is a professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

s.e. smith is a writer, editor and agitator based in Northern California, with a primary focus on intersectional analysis of social issues. smith's work appears in publications like AlterNet, …