Author Bios

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 …

April Marie Lavoie is a Health Sciences Adjunct Faculty member at Bristol Community College for almost eight years and a doctoral student in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at …

Christy Thornton is a co-host on the WBAI Morning Show on 99.5FM in New York. She is earning a doctorate in Latin American history at New York University and …

Chuck Mertz has hosted ‘This is Hell!’ since 1996. Before that he worked selling Christmas decorations, counting and etching bushings, delivering newspapers, stocking shelves and mopping floors, making gyros, …

Rachel Kanakaole is the Chapter Head of the San Bernardino Valley Community College chapter of the Roosevelt Institute | Campus Network and one of the New Chapters Coordinator for …