Author Bios

Birgit Schwarz is a Senior Press Officer for Human Rights Watch based in Johannesburg.

Alex Shams is an anthropologist and journalist with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago whose work focuses on politics and popular resistance in the Middle East. He previously …

A native of Poland, Kasia studied law and cultural science in Germany and currently lives in Berlin advising technology startups on Product and Management. Previously she worked as Advisor …

Dr. Gus Bagakis is a retired philosophy instructor at San Francisco State University and author of Seeing Through The System: The Invisible Class Struggle in America, iUniverse, Inc., Bloomington, …

Alan Maass is editor of the Socialist Worker newspaper and its daily website, SocialistWorker.org. He is the author of The Case for Socialism (Haymarket Books, 2004), an introduction to …

Kalyn Belsha is a reporter for The Chicago Reporter. Email her at [email protected] and follow her on Twitter @kalynbelsha.

Marissa Nuncio is the director of the Garment Worker Center, and a Ms. Foundation Public Voices Fellow with The OpEd Project.

Maha Ahmed is a managing editor at South Side Weekly and was a Summer 2016 editorial intern at In These Times. She studies sociology and public policy at the …

Charlie Kronick is a senior climate advisor at Greenpeace UK, and has been involved in the fields of environment and development for two decades.

Buddy Tangellamudi is an Indian-American student majoring in history at the University of Oklahoma.