Author Bios

Bianca Lorenz is a student at UC Berkeley and a research assistant at the Greater Good Science Center.

Kira M. Newman is a course assistant for the Greater Good Science Center’s “Science of Happiness” course and a digital journalist who has been published in outlets including the Huffington …

Jason Marsh is the editor in chief of Greater Good, the online magazine of UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center. Lauren Klein is a Greater Good research assistant. Jeremy …

Jason Marsh is the founding editor in chief of Greater Good and the GGSC’s director of programs. He is also a co-editor of two anthologies of Greater Good articles: The Compassionate Instinct(WW Norton, 2010) and Are …

Lisa Bennett is a Bay Area writer focused on solutions to climate change. She is the coauthor of Ecoliterate: How Educators Are Cultivating Emotional, Social, and Ecological Intelligence. Follow her on Twitter …

Walt Stewart rose from a private in the army of regulars, reservists, and draftees raised to fight in Vietnam, to a major general serving with the thousands of citizen-soldiers …

Ivy Suriyopas is a co-chair of the Freedom Network (USA) and a steering member of the New York Anti-Trafficking Network. She is also the director of the Anti-Trafficking Initiative at the Asian American …

Shannan Stoll is a senior editor at YES! Magazine. She covers environmental justice and Native rights issues.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and architect of the nonviolent civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was among the twentieth century's most influential figures. One of the greatest …