Author Bios

Seelai Popal is a US-based poet, writer and organizer with Afghans United for Justice, a grassroots initiative dedicated to fighting for a just Afghanistan free from war and occupation. …

Mark Tseng-Putterman is a writer, activist and scholar interested in Asian American social movements vis-à-vis the carceral state. He is a visiting scholar at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York …

Peter Moskowitz is a freelance journalist who has written for the Guardian, The New York Times, The New Republic, Wired, Slate, BuzzFeed and many others. A former staff writer …

Nick Pemberton is a student at Gustavus Adolphus College in southern Minnesota. He currently is employed by Gustavus Dining Service and is studying English. He has previously submitted a couple of articles to counterpunch.org.

Daphne Miller is a practicing family physician, professor and journalist who examines the links between human health and the health of the natural and built environment. She teaches at …

Noelle Sullivan is an assistant professor of instruction in global health studies and anthropology at Northwestern University, a board member of the 501(c)(3) charity Worldview Education and Care, and a …

Ruby Irene Pratka is a freelance wordsmith based in Montreal... for now. She speaks English, French, Russian, and some Haitian Creole. Her work has taken her around her adoptive …

Vijay Das is a Washington-based essayist and policy advocate who writes on social, economic and criminal legal issues. Follow him on Twitter: @vijdas.

Rural America In These Times is a division of In These Times. This blog's mission is to provide the public service of helping make the issues that rural America is …

Frederick Kuo is a published writer based in San Francisco, California. His work has been published in Quartz, the San Francisco Examiner, Citymetric, Asia Times and many more. His …