Author Bios

Iara Lee is a filmmaker and activist whose documentary films include The Suffering Grasses, Cultures of Resistance, and Modulations.

Kate trained in biological anthropology at Cambridge, nutritional sciences at Cornell and epidemiology at UC-Berkeley. She is currently Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Health Sciences, University of …

Pedro Marin is Editor-in-Chief of the Brazilian web magazine Opera Revista (Opera Magazine). The magazine was founded in 2012 and is published in Sao Paulo, the largest city in Brazil. The …

Sharon Kelly is an attorney and freelance writer based in Philadelphia. She has reported for The New York Times, The Nation, National Wildlife, Earth Island Journal and a variety …

Joseph Chamie is a former director of the United Nations Population Division.

Katie Rose Quandt is a freelance journalist in the Bronx who writes about justice and inequality. Follow her on Twitter: @katierosequandt.

Miya Pontes is a contributor to Campaign for America's Future.

Katarzyna J. Cwiertka is Chair of Modern Japan Studies at Leiden University. She has an MA degree in Japanese Studies from Warsaw University, Poland (1990), an MA degree in …