Author Bios

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 …

Julia Angwin Julia Angwin is a senior reporter at ProPublica. From 2000 to 2013, she was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she led a privacy investigative …

Tristan Ahtone is a journalist and member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma. His work has appeared on and in ‘The Newshour’ with Jim Lehrer, National Native News, Frontline, …