Author Bios

Desislava Stoyanova is the coordinator of NGO coalition Counter Balance.

Jeff Shear is the author of ‘The Keys to the Kingdom,’ an investigation into a weapons deal, Doubleday, 1994. He has been a Fellow at The Center for Public …

  Nancy Goldstein is an independent journalist. You can keep up with her on Twitter at @nancygoldstein.

Dr. James J. Zogby is the author of Arab Voices (Palgrave Macmillan, October 2010) and the founder and president of the Arab American Institute (AAI), a Washington, D.C.-based organization …

Ms. Johannsen is the founder and executive director of All Education Matters. She also writes about everyday life, and is an ESL tutor in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.

Dawn Bormann is a reporter with The Kansas City Star.

Adam Federman, a 2003/2004 Russia Fulbright Fellow, has written for The Nation, Columbia Journalism Review, Earth Island Journal, Gastronomica, Counterpunch, and Adirondack Life. He is a 2010 Middlebury Environmental …

Makiko Segawa is a staff writer at the Shingetsu News Agency

Victoria Bruce is a geologist and author of an upcoming book on rare earth elements.