Author Bios

Dr. Patricia Berg is professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine at GWU Medical Center and directs the breast cancer laboratory. Her email is [email protected].   

Robert Weiner is a former spokesman for the Clinton and Bush White Houses, the US House Government Operations Committee, and senior staff for Representatives John Conyers, Claude Pepper, Charles …

Karen Houppert is a Baltimore-based freelance journalist. Her book on indigent defense, published by the New Press in March 2013, coincided with the fiftieth anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright.

Maya Schenwar is director of the Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism. She is also Truthout's board president. She is the co-editor of We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward …