Author Bios

Molly Wallace is Contributing Editor at the Peace Science Digest and Visiting Scholar in Portland State University's Conflict Resolution Program. Her new book, Security without Weapons: Rethinking Violence, Nonviolent …

Myrtle Witbooi is President of the International Domestic Workers Federation and General Secretary of the South African Domestic Service and Allied Workers Union. Born outside of Cape Town, South …

Nasim Chatha works at Alliance for Global Justice (afgj.org) where she coordinates their Prison Imperialism Project. 

Lawrence Vale is the Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lawrence Vale is a member of the National Low Income Housing Coalition.

Chisun Lee serves as counsel on the money in politics team in the Brennan Center's Democracy Program. Before returning in 2013 to the Brennan Center, where she previously served …

Gretchen Sager is a contributor to Socialist Worker. 

Jane Latour is a contributor to The Indypendent. 

Orgul Demet Ozturk is an associate professor of economics at the University of South Carolina.

Jessica Juarez Scruggs is deputy director of policy for People's Action.

Laura Orlando is a member of the Rural America In These Times board of editors. She also teaches in the environmental health department at the Boston University School of …