Author Bios

Bret Gustafson teaches anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, and is the author of New Languages of the State: Indigenous Resurgence and the Politics of Knowledge in Bolivia …

Nicole Fabricant teaches anthropology at Towson University, and is the author of Mobilizing Bolivia's Displaced: Indigenous Politics and the Struggle over Land (UNC Press). Together with Bret Gustafson, she …

Erica is an Electronic Publishing Intern for Truthout.

Ana Cecilia Dinerstein is an Associate Professor in Political Sociology at University of Bath.

Linghein Ho is a contributor to Truthout.

Xhercis Méndez is Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies and affiliated faculty in the African American Studies Program at California State University, Fullerton. She received her doctorate in the Philosophy, …

Sheri Bauman, Ph.D., is a professor of counseling at the University of Arizona and a Tucson public voices fellow with The OpEd Project.

adrienne maree brown grows healing ideas in public through her multi-genre writing, her collaborations and her podcasts. Informed by 25 years of movement facilitation, somatics, Octavia E Butler scholarship …

Ajamu Baraka is a human rights activist, organizer and geo-political analyst. Baraka is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in Washington, D.C. and editor and …