Truthout
Author Bios

Helyeh Doutaghi
Helyeh Doutaghi is a PhD candidate in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa. Prior to her doctoral studies, she completed her LLM in Transnational …

Carl Davidson
Carl Davidson is a socialist writer and educator. He was a leader of the New Left of the 1960s. Today, he resides in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, where he was born …

Cristian Salazar
Cristian Salazar is a Brooklyn-based writer, investigator, and journalist whose work has been published by The Associated Press, The Daily Beast and The Washington Post. He is currently a …

Shari Silberstein
Shari Silberstein is the executive director of Equal Justice USA, a national organization working to transform the legal system by promoting trauma-informed responses to violence.

Tania Unzueta
Tania Unzueta, political director at Mijente, is a first-generation Mexican immigrant and fierce advocate for the rights of undocumented immigrants around the country. Before co-founding Mijente, she helped found …

Stephanie Russell-Kraft
Stephanie Russell-Kraft is a freelance reporter focused on the intersections of religion, culture, gender and the law. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, NYMag.com, Vice, AlterNet, Refinery 29, …

Daniel Wolk
Daniel Wolk, M.D., is on the faculty of the Bryn Mawr Family Medicine Residency Program and Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Philadelphia and Thomas Jefferson University and is a …

Chelli Stanley
Chelli Stanley is a freelance journalist of African, Japanese and European descent, has traveled widely and volunteered with many cultural empowerment initiatives.

Eric Pape
Eric Pape has been the deputy editor of Honolulu Civil Beat, an international correspondent for Newsweek and Spin magazines, and a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times, Foreign …

Daniel Fisher
Daniel Fisher is a doctoral candidate researching the impacts of political violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo on childhood development. Follow him on Twitter: @_danielfisher.