Author Bios

Maria Paradia is a contributor to Occupy.com.

Lance Simmens has spent nearly four decades in senior level public service positions. Visit his website: LSimmens.com.

Tia Oso is the National Organizer for the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, the nations only Black-led immigrant rights organization. Read more about BAJI at www.BlackAlliance.org.

Jesse Bragg is the Media Director at Corporate Accountability International.  

Charles Ornstein is a senior reporter for ProPublica covering health care and the pharmaceutical industry. Terry is ProPublica's community editor. Prior to joining ProPublica, he led digital production and …

Robin Truth Goodman is professor of English and director of the Literature program at Florida State University.

Fanta Condé is an English major at St. Lawrence University and a self-proclaimed Carefree Black Girl with a interest in intersectional feminism, global social injustices and the arts. She loves ‘boring’ things such …

Alan Wider is an oral historian who lives in Portland, Oregon. He is distinguished professor emeritus at the University of South Carolina, and the author of Ruth First and …

Emma Howard is a senior reporter at Energydesk. Follow her on Twitter: @EmmaEHoward.

Rosalyn R. LaPier is an award winning Indigenous writer and environmental historian. She is currently a visiting assistant professor of women's studies, environmental studies and Native American religion, and …