Author Bios

Marti Hiken is the former chair of the National Lawyers Guild Military Law Task Force and of the Prison Law Project. She has been counseling military service members since …

Jennifer Clapp is a professor in the Environment and Resource Studies Department and CIGI Chair in Global Environmental Governance, at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo, …

Dennis Kucinich is the US representative for Ohio's 10th congressional district.

Gara LaMarche is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Atlantic Phlanthropies. Before being named to the post last year, LaMarche was vice president and director of U.S. Programs …

Peter Rothberg, the Nation's Associate Publisher for Special Projects, has been writing the Act Now blog covering the world of activism since 2003. His previous positions with The Nation  …

Tom Carpenter, an openly gay and married former Marine Captain, is the co-chair of the Military Chaplains Forum.

Keith Kroll teaches in the English Department at Kalamazoo Valley Community College in Michigan.

Sandra Steingraber is an ecologist, author, cancer survivor and currently a scholar in residence at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. 

Crystal Sylvia has been working as a social worker in DC Public Schools for the past eleven years. She is also a parent of two children who attend DC …

Susie Cagle is a graphic journalist. She has written and drawn for theAtlantic.com, GOOD, American Prospect, AlterNet, the Awl, In These Times, Campus Progress, Cartoon Movement and many others …