Author Bios

Alisha Green is a technology reporter at CQ Roll Call.

Thomas B. Etzel, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is President and Founder of the Global Peace Building Foundation.

Alice Merrill is a Chicago-based writer interested in media and culture. Follow her work at alicemerrill.com and on Twitter.

Brianna is the fall 2015 reporting intern for OpenSecrets Blog. She recently graduated with a degree in journalism and mass communication from the George Washington University, where she served …

Margaret Knapke is a longtime Latin America human rights activist and a contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus.

Evelyn Reynolds is Director of Black Lives Matter: Champaign-Urbana, Associate Professor of Sociology, Parkland College, Champaign, IL.

Tommaso Segantini is an independent freelance journalist. His personal blog can be found here. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Facebook.

Katharina Obser researches and advocates for reform of U.S. detention policies affecting asylum seekers and immigrant women for the Migrant Rights & Justice Program at the Women's Refugee Commission.

Hilal Elver is a professor of law and the UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Food (started at June 2014), and a distinguished global fellow of the Resnick Program …

Judith Solomon is vice president for Health Policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, where she focuses on Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program and issues …