Author Bios

Kanya D’Almeida won the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, becoming the first Sri Lankan and only the second Asian writer to hold the honor. She was awarded the Society …

Jennifer Nerby is a Research Associate at the Council for Hemispheric Affairs

Jeremy Kessler is a doctoral student at Yale Law School and Yale University's Department of History, where he writes about the history of conscientious objection. His non-academic work has …

Leo Bosner was an employee of FEMA from 1979 until his retirement in 2008. At the time of his retirement, he was president of the FEMA Headquarters employees' union, …

Anthony Newkirk, a contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus, teaches history at Philander Smith College.

Jeffery J. Smith edits The Progress Report  and The Geonomist, which won a Greenlight Award. He is a member of the US Society for Ecological Economics and Mensa. His …