Author Bios

Jessica Millward is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Irvine.

Nancy Altman has a 40-year background in the areas of Social Security and private pensions. She is co-director of Social Security Works and co-chair of the Strengthen Social Security …

Alma Carten is an associate professor of social work and a McSilver faculty fellow at New York University.

Lily Sage is a Montessori pedagogue who is interested in questions of symbiosis, intersectional feminism and anti-racist/fascist praxis. She has studied in the fields of herbalism, visual/performance art, anthropology …

Muriam Haleh Davis is an assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research studies the links between economic structures and racial categories in colonial and post-colonial …

Bill Kitchen lives between the Mohawk Valley and the southern Adirondacks, where he monitors loons, tracks moose in the winter and works on climate issues. He wrote an essay …

Felimon Piñeda is vice president of Familias Unidas por la Justicia, the independent farm workers union in Washington state. He was one of the original strikers when the union …

Mike Gaworecki is a New York-based journalist who writes about energy, climate and forest issues for Mongabay. His writing has appeared on BillMoyers.com, AlterNet, Treehugger, Change.org, The Huffington Post …

Simi Kadirgamar is a New York-based writer who covers race, labor, housing, policing and South Asia.

Allie Busching, a New Economy Maryland Fellow with the Institute for Policy Studies, has been active as an advocate for affordable housing development. Busching holds a Masters in Social …