Author Bios

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.

Leonard Quart is the co-author of the fourth edition of American Film and Society Since 1945 and a contributing editor of Cineaste.

Interviewer Terrence McNally hosts Free Forum on KPFK 90.7FM, Los Angeles and WBA I99.5FM, New York (streaming at kpfk.org and wbai.org). Visit terrencemcnally.net for podcasts of all interviews and …

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 …