Author Bios

Rose Bridger (@RoseKBridger) is a founder member of the Global Anti-Aerotropolis Movement and the author of Plane Truth: Aviation's Real Impact on People and the Environment, published by Pluto …

Mary Green Swig is a contributor to Campaign for America's Future.

Steven L. Swig is a contributor to Campaign for America's Future.

Joel Greenberg is a McClatchy special correspondent.

Cecilia Garza and James Trimarco write for YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas with practical actions. James is web editor at YES! and Cecilia is …

Cristina Casabón is co-founder of Baab Al Shams. She has a Masters in International Relations; her research was on Egypt's political transition. Follow her on: @casabonnline

Larissa Converti is a research associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs.

Born in Brooklyn to a Jamaican father and Puerto Rican mother, Vagabond's interest in art led him to become an artist, writer and filmmaker. He studied fine and commercial art at …

Miles Rapoport is president of Common Cause, a national citizen-advocacy organization with 400,000 members and supporters and 35 state affiliates working to keep power accountable to the people.