Author Bios

Nalini Ramachandran is a student at Northeastern University studying international affairs and middle east studies. She's currently working in the Washington, DC, CODEPINK office.

Ariel Smilowitz is a senior at Cornell University and the Northeast Regional Policy Coordinator for the Roosevelt Institute Campus Network.

Philippa de Boissière works with the Democracy Center in Cochabamba, Bolivia and is a co-author of the report, Corporate Conquistadors.

Jared Keyel has a background in International Relations and Middle Eastern Affairs and currently works with refugees, asylum-seekers, and immigrants in Chicago, Illinois and is syndicated through PeaceVoice.

In her own words: 'My life is my story. I've written and told stories since I was a small child, mostly fantasies filled with princesses and castles. Only now …

Michael Gould-Wartofsky is the author of the new book, The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement (Oxford University Press). He is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at …

John Kiriakou is an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. He's a former CIA officer who blew the whistle on the agency's use of torture.

Deborah is the managing editor at The Chicago Reporter. Email her at [email protected].

Alvin Thornton is the former chair of the Howard University Political Science Department, former three term chair of the Prince George's County, Maryland Board of Education, and Maryland's Commission on Education …

Ed Zuroweste, M.D., is the chief medical officer at Migrant Clinicians Network, a nonprofit dedicated to health justice for the mobile poor, creating practical solutions at the intersection of …