Author Bios

Martin Xavi Macias is Chicago-based multimedia journalist with City Bureau and The Columbia Chronicle. His interests include mental health and disability justice, collective liberation and international solidarity. Join him: …

Rocky Kistner is a communications associate with the Natural Resources Defense Council, focusing on the Gulf oil disaster. He's a former broadcast journalist.

Jim Burroughs, director, producer and cinematographer, has filmed on six continents, documenting wars, expeditions and historical events. He was an Academy Award nominee for ‘Cuban Odyssey’ and received an …

Elyse Cherry is chief executive officer of Boston Community Capital.

Jeff Spross is video editor and blogger for ThinkProgress.org. Jeff was raised in Texas and received his B.S. in film from the University of Texas, after which he worked …

Gianna Palmer is a multiplatform freelance journalist and a recent graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Born and raised in Eugene, Oregon, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from …

Tana Ganeva is AlterNet's managing editor. Follow her on Twitter or email her at [email protected].

Robert Mellinger is a former YES! Magazine intern.

Jill Richardson is the founder of the blog La Vida Locavore and a member of the Organic Consumers Association policy advisory board. She is the author of Recipe for …

Dan Ferber is a correspondent for Science, and the coauthor, with Paul R. Epstein of Harvard Medical School, of Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our …