Author Bios

Freya Yost is an interdisciplinary writer, researcher and illustrator who explores knowledge systems, openness, resilience, and digital rights tensions among other things.

Steven Clifford is the former CEO of King Broadcasting and the author of The CEO Pay Machine: How It Trashes America and How to Stop It. Distributed by OtherWords.org.

Elliott Negin is a senior writer at the Union of Concerned Scientists. His articles have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Columbia Journalism Review, The Hill and many other publications.

Nancy MacLean is the award-winning author of Behind the Mask of Chivalry (a New York Times ‘noteworthy’ book of the year) and Freedom is Not Enough, which was called …

Ricardo Vaz is a contributor to Investig’Action.

Janet Cherry is a human rights and social justice activist and academic at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. She is also a historian and trainer …

Sabeen Ahmed is a PhD student in the Department of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. She is interested in social and political philosophy and critical phenomenology. She is currently working …

Eliana Horn is an activist, organizer and law student at CUNY School of Law with a particular focus on gentrification, policing and working toward prison abolition. Eliana is a …

Jimmy Pasch is the West Regional Organizer at Jewish Voice for Peace.

Celisa Calacal is a junior writing fellow for AlterNet. She is a senior journalism major and legal studies minor at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. Previously she worked …