Author Bios

Ryan Stock is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer from the Dominican Republic and a contributor to ¡Reclama! Magazine.

Mary Bottari, the Center for Media and Democracy's deputy director, is an experienced policy wonk and consumer advocate who has served as a senior analyst on trade.

Barbara Ransby is a historian, author and longtime activist. She is the John D. MacArthur University Professor with appointments in the Departments of Black Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies …

Paul Thomas is a professor at Furman University.

Steve Striffler is the Doris Zemurray Stone chair of Latin American studies and professor of anthropology and geography at the University of New Orleans.