Author Bios

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 …

Jim Cullen is the editor of The Progressive Populist.