Author Bios

Ann Converso is a registered nurse, Communications Workers of America organizer and past president of United American Nurses.

Patrick Weisansal is a radiologic technologist for Kaleida Health and the director of mobilizing and organizing for the Communications Workers of America Local 1168.

Rachel Tansey is a freelance writer and researcher on environmental and economic justice issues. Follow her on Twitter: @ecospaceship.

Nicholas Conley is the author of Pale Highway, an award-winning novel dealing with Alzheimer's. He can be found on the web at www.NicholasConley.com.

Erin N. Marcus, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P. is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

Wolfgang Streeck is the director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Research in Cologne and professor of sociology at the University of Cologne. He is an honorary fellow …

Carlos Hernandez Lopez is a sociologist contributor to Viento Sur.

Terri Hansen is a member of the Winnebago tribe, and has covered Native and Indigenous peoples' issues since 1993. Hansen's focus is science and the environment, and she has …

Francesca Gaiba, Ph.D., is research associate professor of Medical Social Sciences and associate director of the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minorities Health and Wellbeing at Northwestern University, and …

Gregory Reck is a professor of anthropology at Appalachian State University.