Author Bios

Michael Merryman-Lotze is the director of the Middle East program for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). He coordinates AFSC’s Middle East focused advocacy and policy programming, working closely …

Olivia Anderson is an editorial intern at YES! Magazine. Follow her on Twitter: @0liviaranderson.  

Ameer Hasan Loggins is a Ph.D. candidate in African diaspora studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His research explores reality television as a social phenomenon and its effects on …

Amanda is a Durham, North Carolina-based freelance journalist. Learn more about her at amandaannabrams.com.

Chip Colwell is a lecturer on anthropology at the University of Colorado Denver. Colwell has consulted for Anthropological Research LLC, a firm that works with Native American tribes to …

Lourdes Cárdenas is an independent journalist based in El Paso, Texas, and a journalism professor at New Mexico State University. She usually covers stories related to immigration, drug trafficking …

Catherine Weaver is associate professor of Public Affairs and co-director of Innovations for Peace and Development at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also a Public Voices Fellow with the Op-Ed Project.

Aaron joins EFF after moving from Washington, DC where he worked on speech, privacy, and freedom of information issues at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and …

Kevin Grandia is a contributor and strategic adviser to DeSmogBlog and DeSmog Canada. He runs the digital marketing agency Spake Media House. Named a ‘Green Hero’ by Rolling Stone Magazine …

Claire Salisbury is a freelance environmental science writer regularly contributing to Mongabay, blog coordinator with the tropical reforestation research network People and Reforestation in the Tropics (PARTNERS) and volunteer consultant for nonprofit …