Author Bios

Timna Axel is based out of Chicago and works for Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights. She's also written for 90 Days, 90 Voices; City Bureau; the Invisible Institute …

Elizabeth Rose is a freelance journalist and essayist who prefers to write about social justice themes. She is currently at work on a book about Guatemalan weaving women and …

Lisa Fuller spent the past eight years as a senior staff member and a civilian peacekeeper at Nonviolent Peaceforce, working in war zones such as Iraq, South Sudan, and …

Ari Honarvar collaborates with Musical Ambassadors of Peace to help build music and poetry bridges across war-torn borders. Her work has been featured on TV and NPR and has appeared in …

Emily C. Bell is a staff writer at AlterNet.

Heather Cox Richardson teaches American history at Boston College. She is the author of a number of books, most recently, To Make Men Free, a history of the Republican Party that …

Emily Ludolf is a contributor to Occupy.com. 

Justin Theodra is a recent graduate from the University of California, Irvine, entering graduate school in the fall. He is interested in Marxian political economy, unequal exchange and intellectual …

Mashyla Buckmaster is an apprentice chaplain at Chaplains on the Harbor in Grays Harbor County, Washington. 

Lulu Friesdat is an Emmy award-winning journalist and filmmaker whose  election security investigations have received millions of views on Now This and been featured on Politico, MSN.com, the Young Turks, The Hollywood …