Author Bios

John M. Benson is Senior Research Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University.

Mary G. Findling is Research Associate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University.

Iris Figueroa is the director of economic and environmental justice for Farmworker Justice, a nonprofit that seeks to empower migrant and seasonal farmworkers to improve their living and working …

Darryl Knudsen is the executive director of International Rivers.

Michael Simon was a member of the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Forum.

Deborah Moore is a former commissioner of the World Commission on Dams.

Joy James, Ebenezer Fitch Professor of the Humanities at Williams College, is editor of The New Abolitionists and Imprisoned Intellectuals. Her most recent books are In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love and New Bones Abolition: A …

Matthew Guariglia is a policy analyst working on issues of surveillance and privacy at the local, state, and federal level.

Rabbi Brian Walt is the founder and rabbi emeritus of Congregation Mishkan Shalom, an activist congregation in Philadelphia, and was the founding executive director of Rabbis for Human Rights …

Molly Wilcox is a writer for Salon.