Author Bios

Monica Heger is a San Francisco-based science journalist who covers biotechnology, the environment, and medicine.

Lauren Kaori Gurley is a freelance writer and master's candidate in Latin American studies and journalism at New York University. Her work has been published in In These Times, …

Luke Nguyen, from Old Lyme, Connecticut, studies Political Science at Amherst College, Masachusetts, and is a passionate scholar of Brazil.

Chris Wright has a Ph.D. in US history from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and is the author of Notes of an Underground Humanist and Worker Cooperatives and Revolution: History and …

Craig Willse is a Brooklyn-based writer and teacher. He is a member of Jewish Voice for Peace and is on the organizing collective for the US Campaign for the …

Barbara Bernstein is writer, narrator and producer of Sacrifice Zones. 

Ruchi Kumar is an Indian journalist based in Afghanistan, covering political, cultural and developmental stories from the region.

Matt Easterday is an assistant professor in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University where he has developed online deliberation platforms for the Roosevelt Institute Network, Jefferson Center …

Andrew Barron is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Macquarie University. With his team at Macquarie, he is exploring the neurobiology of major behavioural systems …

Simon Klein is a third year cotutelle PhD student between Macquarie University (Sydney, NSW) and Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France). He works on bee cognition and behaviour. He is …