Author Bios

Mike Albert is an activist, economist, speaker and writer. He is coordinator of ZNet, and coeditor and cofounder of Z Magazine. He also cofounded South End Press and has …

Myra MacPherson is the author of the Vietnam classic, Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation. She has continued to lecture and write about Vietnam and veterans. MacPherson …

Harriet Ridley is a PhD researcher of Earth Sciences at Durham University.

Amy K. Liebman is director of environmental and occupational health for Migrant Clinicians Network, a nonprofit focused on creating practical solutions at the intersection of vulnerability, migration, and health.

Domino Renee Perez is the director of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and a public voices fellow with The OpEd Project. She is …

Helen O'Nions is a senior lecturer, Nottingham Law School at Nottingham Trent University.

Patrick Sheehan is a writer currently based in Los Angeles. His writing has been published in Jacobin Magazine, In These Times, AlterNet and Occupy.com.

Dave Maass is a media relations coordinator and investigative researcher at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Kristen Maye is a policy associate with the Drug Policy Alliance.

Ross Gay teaches creative writing at Indiana University. He is the author of Bringing the Shovel Down (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011) and Against Which (CavanKerry Press, 2006). His …