Author Bios

Sally Neas wrote this article for YES! Magazine. Sally is a freelance writer and community educator based in Santa Cruz, California. She has a background in permaculture, sustainable agriculture, and community …

Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky is the United Nations Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt on human rights.

Salar Mohandesi is an editor of Viewpoint and a doctoral candidate in History at the University of Pennsylvania.

Baher Kamal is director of the Middle East and North Africa agencies at the Inter Press Service. Kamal is an Egyptian born, Spanish national with more than 40 years …

Novella Coleman is a staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California.

Abre' Conner is a staff attorney at the ACLU of Northern California. She lives in Fresno, in California's Central Valley. Follow her on Twitter @MsAConner.

Sarah Gilman is a contributing editor for High Country News, and writes from Portland, Oregon.   

The International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee is the hub of communication between Leonard Peltier and his program coordinators, the general public, government officials, political and tribal leaders, the media …

Kristy A. Belton is a postdoctoral fellow at the Human Rights Center of the University of Dayton. She has been working and publishing on statelessness for over a decade and …