Author Bios

Dr. T.J. Coles is an associate researcher at the Organisation for Propaganda Studies and the author of several books, including Manufacturing Terrorism (2018, Clairview Books).

Frances Lee is a Chinese-American designer, PAGE scholar, cultural studies Masters' student at the University of Washington Bothell and trans activist in Seattle, Washington. You can read more of their …

Sarah Banet-Weiser is Vice Dean, Director of the School of Communication and a professor of communication at the University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. 

Ellen Shepard is CEO of Community Allies, a Chicago-based community development consultancy, and the creator of the Radical Inclusion model for community engagement. See more at www.communityallies.net. 

Khaled A. Beydoun is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Detroit Mercy and the author of the forthcoming Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear (University of …

Amy Faith Ho, MD, is an emergency physician, published writer and national speaker on issues pertaining to health care and health policy, with work featured in Forbes, Chicago Tribune, …

Dharna Noor is a producer at the Real News Network, an independent news organization based in Baltimore. You can find her on Twitter @dharnanoor.

Giovanni Ortolani is a multimedia journalist and documentary maker specialising in science, sustainability, technology and environment. He is a United Nations Foundation press fellow and has been shortlisted for …

Kathleen McClellan is the deputy director at WHISPeR.

Nancy Gallagher is interim director at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland and a senior research scholar at the School of Public Policy at the University of …