Author Bios

Mary Fitzgerald is Editor-in-Chief of openDemocracy. Before joining oD she worked for Avaaz, the global campaigning organisation, and is a former Senior Editor of Prospect Magazine. She has written …

Joan M. Cook, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, is an Op-Ed Public Voices Fellow, a regular contributor to Time Ideas, and …

Neil Singh is an NHS doctor and member of Keep Our NHS Public. He teaches at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. He has previously written for the New Statesman …

Wilson Dizard is a freelance reporter and photographer whose work has appeared at Al Jazeera America and the New York Post.

Libero Della Piana is a senior organizer at the Alliance for a Just Society.

Tomas Lopez is counsel for the Brennan Center's Democracy Program, where his work focuses on voting rights and elections. Prior to joining the Brennan Center, he was a fellow …

Xavier Flory has written for The New York Times and the New Republic, among others. He is currently a Michel David Weill Scholar in France.

Malú Huacuja del Toro is a feminist Mexican novelist, playwright and screenwriter with eight fiction published books in Spanish. She wrote the first ‘anti-soap opera’ in Mexico, produced in …

Annie Bird is a contributor to CIP Americas Program. 

Emily Zak is a Santa Fe-based blogger with Care2 Causes. Her passions lie with LGBT and women's activism especially.