Author Bios

Dory Hippauf is chair of the research committee for the Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, and was recently a recipient of the First Annual FracTracker and …

Erick Boustead is a cofounder and member of Line Break Media, a multimedia and communications cooperative dedicated to storytelling for transformative social change. You can connect with him at …

Taylor Miles is a freelance journalist in Berlin, where she is the managing editor of a literary journal. She spent a semester in Fortaleza, Brazil, studying sustainable development and social …

Danny O'Brien has been an activist for online free speech and privacy for over 15 years. In his home country of the UK, he fought against repressive anti-encryption law, …

Paige Blankenbuehler is an editorial intern at High Country News. Follow her on Twitter: @PaigeBlank.

Bruce Fries is the founder of the Patient Centered Care Advocacy Group and a member of the Mayday Project advocacy group for Lyme patient rights. Follow him on Twitter …

Paul Barbot is a freelance writer from Kernersville, North Carolina, who has had works published on AlterNet and Salon. He most notably exposed the privatization attempts by United States …

Jodi Peterson is a senior editor at High Country News. Follow @peterson_jodi

Didem Tali is a freelance multimedia journalist specializing into international development affairs. She reports about economic affairs, gender and environment from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. She …