Author Bios

Payal Sampat is Earthworks’ mining program director. Payal currently leads the No Dirty Gold corporate/markets campaign. She heads up global efforts to monitor and reform the mining industry, working with communities affected by …

Breno Altman is Editorial Director at Opera Mundi.

Joan is a public health microbiologist and works at the interface between environmental engineering and public health. She applies new method for detection of pathogens in water including metagenomics …

Taru Taylor studies I Ching and helped get the name “John Marshall” removed from Cleveland's public law school on account of the former chief justice's unrepentant slaveholding and lawless …

Theodoros Karyotis is a sociologist, translator and activist participating in social movements that promote self-management, solidarity economy and defense of the commons. He writes on autonomias.net.

Seymour Hersh has written for the New Yorker and the London Review of Books, as well as serving as a Washington correspondent for the New York Times. He established …

Isra Saleh el-Namey is a journalist from Gaza.

Douglas Williams is a doctoral student in political science at Wayne State University in Detroit, where his research centers around public policy, disadvantaged communities and the labor movement.

Liza Bayless is an editorial intern at Yes! Magazine.

Wilbert Cordel Kizer Moore is a writer from Memphis, Tennessee. He's a pro-Black, pro-queer, pro-woman, pro-heaux activist that enjoys reading books and people.