Author Bios

Aaron Viles is a Senior Grassroots Organizer who works with citizen authors on Care2′s ThePetitionSite.com to create petitions that will win concrete victories for the environment and other progressive …

Neil Howard is an academic and activist based at the European University Institute in Florence. He is a Marie Curie Fellow at the Migration Policy Centre in the Robert Schuman Centre …

Angela Peoples is co-director of GetEQUAL. She has a long history of work building student power and fighting for a progressive vision including college access/affordability, the DREAM Act, affordable …

Carlton Reid is author of Roads Were Not Built for Cars, published by Island Press. For nearly three decades, Reid has written about cycling, transport, and adventure travel. In …

Morgan W. Jameson works in the real estate industry. He is the​ Finance​ Director of the Young Democrats of America and the ​National Committeeman​ of the Virginia Young Democrats. …

Bruno Gullì teaches philosophy at Kingsborough, City University of New York. His latest publication is Humanity and the Enemy: How Ethics Can Rid Politics of Violence (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014).

Jonas Gamso is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. His research interests include international trade and labor rights, political economy …

Sam Adler-Bell is a New York-based writer. He researches privacy and surveillance issues at the The Century Foundation. Follow him on Twitter @SamAdlerBell.

Ana Maria Dimais a charity-worker in the field of international development. She comes from Romania and can be found on twitter @AnaMariaDima.

Jennifer Allsopp is a regular contributor and commissioning editor at openDemocracy 50.50. She has worked on a number of research projects at the universities of Exeter, Birmingham and Oxford …