Author Bios

Travis is a freelance journalist and composer based in Austin, Texas. Follow him @TPutnamHill.

Mark Wilkerson spent eight years in the US Army as an AH-1 Cobra and UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crew chief with the 3rd Infantry and 101st Airborne Divisions. He …

Mark Bou Mansour works in communications in the charity and policy sector and is particularly interested in the interplay between new media and politics. Follow him on Twitter.

Drew is the communications and editorial assistant at Sunlight, where he supports media relations, social media and original reporting projects such as Political Party Time. Born in Dallas, Texas …

Jake McGraw is a public policy coordinator at the William Winter Institute and editor of the policy blog Rethink Mississippi. A native of Oxford, Mississippi, he studied public policy and economics …

John Wonderlich is the Policy Director for the Sunlight Foundation and one of the nation's foremost advocates for open government. John spearheads Sunlight's goal of changing the government by opening …

Lisa Palmer is a freelance journalist and a fellow at the National Socio - Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) in Annapolis, Md. She reports on energy, climate change, the environment, and …

Liza Gross is an independent journalist and PLOS Biology editor who specializes in environmental and public health, ecology and conservation. Her work has appeared in diverse outlets, including The New …

Ken Otterbourg wrote this article for YES! Magazine. Ken is a writer who lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His work has appeared in National Geographic, Fortune, the Washington Post Magazine and other …

Elizabeth Henderson farmed at Peacework Farm in Wayne County, New York, for more than 30 years. Peacework CSA was one of the first community-supported agriculture farms in New York …