Author Bios

Aqilla Faizi is a freelance journalist in Kandahar.

Katie Thomas covers the pharmaceutical industry for The New York Times.

Imani Countess has worked with US-based Africa advocacy, development and social justice organizations for 30 years. She’s held leadership positions with the Solidarity Center (AFL-CIO), the National Democratic Institute, …

Marta Musić is an alter-globalization, feminist, transnational activist, currently doing a Ph.D. on systemic alternatives to neoliberalism at the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technologies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She …

Simon Pirani is honorary professor at the University of Durham, U.K., and author of Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption (Pluto, 2018). As a senior research …

Coco Das is a contributor to refusefascism.org, an organization mobilizing to drive out the Trump/Pence regime through a sustained, nonviolent protest movement. Follow her on Twitter: @coco_das.

Jerri-Lynn Scofield has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans.

Melissa Kravitz is a writer based in New York. She is a writing fellow at Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media Institute. She’s written …

Tina Tru is a contributor to Socialist Worker.

Nadia Tecuapetla is a photographer based in Mexico City.