Author Bios

Boone Shear is a lecturer in the Anthropology Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a member of the Community Economies Collective and an editorial board member of Rethinking …

Robert C. Koehler is an award-winning, Chicago-based journalist and nationally syndicated writer. His new book, Courage Grows Strong at the Wound is now available. Contact him at [email protected] or …

Brooke Jarvis is YES! Magazine's web editor.

Sandy Johnson is the Managing Editor of Politics and Government at iWatch. Johnson spent most of her 30-year-career at The Associated Press, where she oversaw the wire service’s coverage …

Miranda Blue is the Communications Manager for People for the American Way.

Lauren Kelley is an associate editor at AlterNet and a freelance writer and editor who has contributed to Change.org, The L Magazine and Time Out New York.

Dr. Gary G. Kohls is a retired physician who practiced holistic mental health care, dealing extensively with the totally preventable and difficult to treat reality known as posttraumatic stress …