Author Bios

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 …

Dustin Axe is a teacher, writer and activist from Chicago, Illinois. He studied history at Purdue University and writes about peace and social justice. Email him: [email protected]. Follow him …

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 …