Author Bios

Lois Marie Gibbs is a former resident of the Love Canal community and founder of the Center for Health, Environment and Justice, a project of People's Action.

Kathleen B. Jones is professor emerita of Women's Studies at San Diego State University and Visiting Research Fellow at University of California, Davis, where she directs an NEH seminar …

Jon Else worked on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee staff in 1964 and 1965. He was series producer and cinematographer for Eyes on the Prize, and has produced and …

Frances Grahl is a Ph.D. student working on literature of migration to Europe. She is active in migrant solidarity and anticapitalist feminist struggles. She helps coordinate SOAS Goes To …

Allison McGillivray is traveling the country in a 1983 El Dorado motorhome, visiting communities of resistance and hospitality, and conducting oral histories for the Catholic Worker movement.

John W. Dower is professor emeritus of history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His many books include War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War and …

Alyssa Aquino is a ‘Next Leader’ at the Institute for Policy Studies.

Linda C. Fentiman is a professor at the Elisabeth Haub Law School at Pace University, where she specializes in health law and criminal law. She is the author of …

Sam Nakayama is an independent writer based in Torrance, California.