Author Bios

Ryan Schinault is a Senior Combating WMD C-CBRN Analyst (ARA-ASD), Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs (ASD(NCB)) at Applied Research Associates …

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.