Author Bios

Jennifer Mercieca is an associate professor of communication and director of the Aggie Agora at Texas A&M University. 

Originally from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Lauren Longo currently lives in Germany where she teaches English and eats a lot of pretzels. Previously, she was a digital marketing specialist at …

Kyla Sankey is a Toronto-based activist and political commentator. She conducts research on issues of Latin American development and social movements.

Samer Hjouj is a contributor to Christian Peacemaker Teams Palestine. 

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.