Author Bios

Tanya Washington, professor of law and a native of the city that bears her last name, focuses her research and scholarship on issues related to educational equity and issues …

Tharanga Yakupitiyage is a UN correspondent for Inter Press Service.

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 …