Author Bios

Tanya Steele wrote this article for YES! Magazine. Tanya is a filmmaker and cultural critic who resides in Brooklyn, New York. She received an M.F.A. from NYU’s Tisch School …

Jackie S. is an activist living in Chicago.

John Hanrahan, currently on the editorial board of ExposeFacts, is a former executive director of The Fund for Investigative Journalism and reporter for  The Washington Post, The Washington Star, UPI …

Courtney J. Parker is a Ph.D. student at the University of Georgia College of Public Health. Courtney has published academic writing on Indigenous community media and health, as well …

John Ahniwanika Schertow is an internationally recognized editor and publisher, a self-taught web developer and an award winning journalist of Kanienkehaka and mixed-European descent. For the past nine years, …

Nicolas Pelham has reported on the Arab world for over twenty years. His article in this issue will appear in different form in a 
forthcoming book on the Middle …

Eve Hayes de Kalaf is a postgraduate researcher at the University of Aberdeen. Prior to graduating with Distinction in Modern Language Studies from the University of Nottingham in 2005, …

Akunna Eneh has been a teen librarian at the Dudley Branch of the Boston Public Library since 2008. She has worked with several community organizations and schools in and …

Amirah Santos-Goldberg is a member of the Massachusetts Teachers Association and Educators for a Democratic Union.

Lindsay Bigda is a communications associate for the Guatemala Human Rights Commission.