Author Bios

Ta-Nehisi Coates is a writer, journalist, educator and senior editor for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics and social issues. He is also a former writer for …

Michele Norris is an award-winning journalist who reported for ABC News and wrote for The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times before hosting National Public …

Dr. Riki Ott witnessed first-hand the ecological destruction and social chaos from the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska - and became an “accidental activist” in …

Cass Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. His new book, with Reid Hastie, is Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter.

Mia Steinle is an investigator for the Project On Government Oversight and the civil society coordinator for the U.S. Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. Her work focuses on government management …

Before retiring recently, Jan Resseger served for fifteen years as the (lay) Minister for Public Education and Witness in the United Church of Christ's Justice and Witness Ministries. With …

Marie Arana was born in Lima, Peru. She is the author of Cellophane, Lima Nights, American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood and most recently, Bolívar: American Liberator, a biography about …

Martin Aidnik is a Sociology PhD student at Tallinn University, in Estonia.