Author Bios

Jared Rodriguez is a designer, photo editor and videographer at Truthout.

Jim Rigby is pastor of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas. He can be reached by email. Videos of his sermons are available online.

Kwei Quartey was born in Ghana and raised by an African American mother and a Ghanaian father, both of whom were university lecturers. He lives in Pasadena, California where he runs a …

Patrick Bond is a political economist at the University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Development Studies in Durban, where since 2004 he has directed the Centre for Civil Society. Working …

Frances Moore Lappé is the author of 20 books, beginning with Diet for a Small Planet. Most recently, she wrote It's Not Too Late: Crisis, Opportunity, and the Power …

Allan S. Teel is a family physician in Damariscotta, Maine. During his 25-year medical career, he has worked with thousands of older patients in the hospital, at nursing homes, …