Author Bios

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.

Kaitlin Butler is Program Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network. She is a writer and researcher with a focus on climate change, environmental policy and justice. 

Charles M. Blow has been columnist at The New York Times since 2008, and he appears regularly on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, the BBC, Al Jazeera and HBO. Blow …

Katy Skahill is a member of Breast Cancer Action, a national grassroots education and activist organization working to address and end the breast cancer epidemic.

Sheyenne Rowel is a high school student in San Francisco.

André Leu is president of IFOAM Organics International, and on the steering committee of Regeneration International.

Kaleb Autman is a Chicago-based youth organizer and activist. He attends Village Leadership Academy. His work focuses on prisons and detention centers, state and state-sanctioned violence, and racial discrimination …