Author Bios

This article was written for YES! Magazine by the Indigenous #NoDAPL Coalition -- Indigenous groups who have been organizing at Standing Rock: Honor the Earth, Sacred Stone Camp, Indigenous Environmental Network, and …

Dr. Ama Biney is a historian and political scientist living in UK.

Lynne Lyman is the California State Director for the Drug Policy Alliance.

Patrick Parenteau is a professor of law at the Vermont Law School. 

Andy Hazel is a UN correspondent for Inter Press Service.

Tegra Stone Nuess is an editorial, documentary and commercial photographer specializing in travel. After growing up in Spokane, Washington, Tegra attended Connecticut College, receiving a BA in photography and French.

Cristina López G. is a Senior Researcher, with a focus in Hispanic media and Latino representation. She has a graduate degree in public policy from Georgetown University.

Jon Marcus, higher-education editor at The Hechinger Report, has written about higher education for The Washington Post, USA Today, Time, the Boston Globe, Washington Monthly, and is a higher-education …

Aldo Santiago is a freelance journalist, photographer and editor of Avispa Midia and Subversiones.

Martha Stone is the Communications Director for America Promise. Working for American Promise is one way she honors her parents' service in the last century, and models acts of engaged citizenship …