Author Bios

Yveline Alexis is assistant professor of Africana studies at Oberlin College.

Mohammad Arafat is a graduate of the Islamic University of Gaza, where he studied English. 

Rebecca Anger is a disabled social activist and an aspiring attorney in Chicago, focusing on health and civil rights law. 

Amy Bhatt is an associate professor of gender and women's studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. 

Dawson Barrett is assistant professor of US history at Del Mar College. He is the author of Teenage Rebels: Successful High School Activists, from the Little Rock Nine to the …

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.