Author Bios

Ryan Schleeter is an online content producer at Greenpeace USA and editor of The Environmentalist blog. His writing has appeared in National Geographic, Grist, GreenBiz, EcoWatch and more. Follow …

Edna Bonhomme is an activist and doctoral candidate in history at Princeton University. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Julie Chinitz is the lead writer for People's Action.

Paula Schmidt's writing has been published in Brainline, Chicken Soup. She lives in the Pacific Northwest. 

J. Corey Williams is a resident physician in psychiatry at Yale University. 

Gus Bova is an activist, shelter-worker and writer in Austin, Texas. 

Sarah Schilliger is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department for Social Sciences at the University of Basel. In her PhD (2014) she did research on care migration and global care chains …

Melanie Barron, a doctoral student in geography at UT Knoxville, recently joined UCW staff as an organizer and researcher. 

Melissa Hellmann is a YES! Magazine reporting fellow and graduate of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. She has written for the Associated Press, TIME, The Christian Science Monitor, …

Sharon Smith, author of Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States, takes a closer look at the income statistics everyone is celebrating.