Author Bios

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.

Brendan Duke is a Tax Policy Analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Prior to joining the Center, Duke was the Associate Director for Economic Policy at …

Cindy Cohn is the executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). From 2000-2015, she served as EFF's legal director as well as its general counsel. Cohn first became …