Author Bios

Brian Palmer covers daily environmental news for Earthwire. His science writing has appeared in Slate, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and many other publications.

Spencer Gowin is a high school student in San Francisco. He grew up in Bayview District.

Cirila Toplak, PhD is Associate Professor at the University of Ljubljana. She is the former advisor to the President of Slovenia, a Fulbright scholar at Georgetown University, and president of …

Kathleen Dean Moore is professor emerita of environmental philosophy at Oregon State University, co-editor of Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril, and author of the forthcoming …

Juliet Hooker is Associate Professor of Government and African and African Diaspora Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Race and the Politics of …

Nidia Bautista is a freelance journalist based in Mexico City. Nidia contributes regularly to CIP Americas Program and Upside Down World and focuses on cross-border social movements, gender issues …

Ashley Smith is a socialist writer and activist in Burlington, Vermont. He has written in numerous publications including Truthout, The International Socialist Review, Socialist Worker, ZNet, Jacobin, New Politics, …

Sherine El Taraboulsi is a research fellow with the Humanitarian Policy Group at ODI. Her research has covered Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and north Nigeria with an interest in …

Heaven Crawley is a research professor at Coventry University.