Author Bios

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, …

Ashe McGovern is a policy analyst with LGBT Progress at the Center for American Progress.

Joseph Hickman is a former US Marine and Army sergeant. He is the author of The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America's Soldiers (Hot Books/Skyhorse).

Rick Hind is the legislative director at Greenpeace USA. Since he joined the organization in 1991, he is a go-to source for journalists covering toxics and chemical security issues. …

Elizabeth Hempowicz is the public policy associate at the Project On Government Oversight (POGO).