Author Bios

Lorraine E. Maxwell is a professor of Design and Environmental Analysis at Cornell University and a Public Voices Fellow of The OpEd Project.

Amanda Bass is a 2015 graduate of New York University School of Law, and she works as an attorney.

J. Celso Castro Alves, a native of Brazil, earned his Ph.D. in history from Yale University and works as an independent researcher, historian and photographer.

Emily Pollom is a conservation biologist and sister of a person incarcerated in Indiana.

Todd Chretien lives in the San Francisco Bay area and is a frequent contributor to Socialist Worker and the International Socialist Review.

Miles Grant is a progressive blogger and environmental communicator in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. He's director of communications  for the National Wildlife Federation (though his thoughts here are his own). Read more …

Dr. Lebo Moletsane is the Professor and John Langalibalele Dube Chair in Rural Education at the University of Kwa Zulu-Natal. She has 20 years working as an educationist and …

Michel Balinski is an applied mathematician, mathematical economist and operations research analyst. Educated in the United States, he has lived and worked primarily in the United States and France. …

Rida Laraki is Research Director at the CNRS (LAMSADE, University Paris Dauphine) and a lecturer at the Polytechnic. He is a graduate engineer of the Ecole Polytechnique and obtained his …

Kristian Haug is a Master of Social Sciences in Social Welfare Studies from Roskilde University.