Author Bios

Christine Muttonen is a former Austrian parliamentarian who served as the president of the Organization for Security and Cooperation Parliamentary Assembly from 2016 to 2017. 

Tim Lydon writes from Alaska on public-lands and conservation issues. He has worked on public lands for much of the past three decades, both as a guide and for …

Yurissa Varela is a contributor to Inter Press Service.

Duminda Perera is a contributor to Inter Press Service.

Praem Mehta is a contributor to Inter Press Service.

Yina Shan is a contributor to Inter Press Service.

Tory Becker is a Bay Area-based lesbian/queer political activist who worked for many years as a psychiatric emergency nurse and later as a nurse practitioner in the methadone program …

Matthew Hayes is associate professor of sociology at St. Thomas University, Fredericton, Canada, and Canada Research Chair in Global and International Studies. He is the author of Gringolandia: Lifestyle …

Barbara Cecil is the author of the book Coming Into Your Own: A Woman’s Guide Through Life Transitions. The book is a roadmap through life’s thresholds. It is woven with …

Matthew Byrne is a writer and translator whose writing has appeared, or will soon, in Guernica, The Brooklyn Rail, Truthout and elsewhere. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.