Author Bios

Nona Willis Aronowitz is a writer, editor, cofounder of Tomorrow Magazine, and Pipeline Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. She tweets at @NonaWA.

Dalila Mahdawi is an independent human rights journalist in Beirut, Lebanon. Contact her at [email protected].   

Farid Abdel-Nour is Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University where is a founding member of the Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies.

Emily Berman works as a counsel for the Brennan Center's Liberty and National Security Program. She works to protect individual rights through the promotion of effective oversight mechanisms for the …

Jonathan Hafetz is a law professor at Seton Hall School of Law where he focuses his research on national security, human rights, immigration, and constitutional law. He is the former …

Mitu Sengupta is an associate professor in the department of politics and public administration at Ryerson University and the director of the Centre for Development and Human Rights. 

Amanda Wilson is working as a correspondent with Inter Press Service in Washington, DC. 

Larry Cohen is president of the Communications Workers of America, which represents 700,000 working men and women in communications, media, airlines, manufacturing, health care and public service.

Erich Vieth is an iconoclastic consumer attorney, musician and writer living in the Shaw neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. He and his wife Anne Jay have two daughters, aged …