Author Bios

Brooke Nally is a sustainability expert and green advocate. She recently graduated with a double degree in business and sustainable studies, and she now does the content strategy for a renewable energy website, SolarPowerAuthority.

David Winfrey is a youngish Boomer whose extensive reading in history, politics, sociology and women's studies has left him frequently appalled, but rarely shocked, by events both foreign and domestic.

Aisling O'Donnell is a lecturer of international development at the Australian Catholic University.

Miguel Lovera is an agriculture and forest policy expert who is currently a member of the Global Forest Coalition and researcher at the Universidad Católica de Asunción - CEIDRA (Center …

Alex Schmaus is a member of Students Against War and the International Socialist Organization at San Francisco State University.

Alyssa Stryker is the criminal justice reform manager at the Drug Policy Alliance. She is committed to ending the war on drugs so that it can no longer be …

Sammy Sass is a writer and artist from Boston who has been talking, listening and creating for as long as she has had hands to write and words to …

Christopher ‘Toby’ McLeod directs the Sacred Land Film Project. His most recent film series, the award-winning Standing on Sacred Ground, tells the stories of eight embattled indigenous communities around the world. …

Samantha Schmidt wrote this article for YES! Magazine. Samantha is a graduating senior majoring in journalism and Arabic at Indiana University. She reported this story while studying abroad in Amman, Jordan. She …

Alex Rowell is a research assistant with the Economic Policy team at the Center for American Progress. Follow him on Twitter: @AlexRowell.