Author Bios

Reverend Billy Talen is a preacher with the Stop Shopping Choir. He is also an author, dad and has been arrested more than 70 times fighting for social and …

Kevin Young teaches history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He can be reached at [email protected].

Rachel M. Cohen is a Baltimore, Maryland-based reporter. Her work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The American Prospect, Dissent, Next City and The Forward. Follow her on Twitter: @rmc031.

Rebecca Adamson is a Cherokee economist and the founder and president of First Peoples Worldwide. A leader, activist and ground-breaking Indigenous woman, she has dedicated nearly five decades to …

Garrett Graham is a documentary filmmkaer based in Denton, Texas. He is currently directing Don't Frack With Denton, a documentary chronicling how his hometown became the first city to …

Lindsay VanDyke is a filmmaker currently working on a feature documentary under a Fulbright fellowship in Mexico City. Her videos have been featured in a variety of publications including Oprah, NPR, …

Ian Fitzpatrick is a food sovereignty researcher for Global Justice Now, helping to build the case for food sovereignty and agroecology in Africa. Prior to this he worked as …

Karen Evans-Reeves is a research Associate for the Tobacco Control Research Group at University of Bath.