Author Bios

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, …

Stephanie Van Hook is the Executive Director of the Metta Center for Nonviolence in Petaluma, California. You can contact her at [email protected].

Jiri Pehe, once Chief Political Advisor to former Czech President Václav Havel, is a political analyst and Director of New York University in Prague.

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.