Author Bios

Ryan Smith is a long-time activist and one of the cofounders of the Industrial Workers of the World Environmental Unionism Caucus (IWW EUC) and Heathens United Against Racism. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. …

Braden Phillips is a multimedia journalist who lives in Barcelona, Spain.

Kate Shea Baird lives in Barcelona, and works in advocacy for local democracy and decentralization. She tweets about political communication and Catalonia.

Derek Black is a professor of law at the University of South Carolina. 

Ese Olumhense is a multimedia journalist from New York City. She is an Ida B. Wells fellow at the Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute, and a graduate of …

Darrin W. Anderson, Sr., Ph.D., MS, is the deputy director of the New Jersey Partnership for Healthy Kidss and a participant of the Allies Reaching for Community Health Equity …

Aviva Aron-Dine is a senior fellow and senior counselor at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. From 2015 to 2017, she served as a senior counselor to the …

Adam Ramsay is the Co-Editor of openDemocracyUK and also works with Bright Green. Before, he was a full time campaigner with People & Planet. You can follow him at @adamramsay.

Peter Slavin is a freelance journalist and editor. He has been writing about Appalachia since 1995. He also writes about cities and Southeast Asia. He has been published by The …