Author Bios

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 …

Heidi R. Lewis is Assistant Professor of Feminist & Gender Studies at Colorado College.  Her teaching and research focus on feminism, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity (black culture especially), Critical Race …

Nejm Benessaiah is a doctoral candidate in anthropology, specializing in power, religion and ecology in the North African region.

In 1998, Lani Guinier became the first woman of color appointed to a tenured professorship at Harvard Law School. Before her Harvard appointment, she was a tenured professor at …

Stephanie Panousieris is an activist, artist, and writer from Dallas, Texas. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

James Sanford is a historian who focuses on religion and politics in modern America. He is author of Blueprint for Theocracy: The Christian Right's Vision for America (2014).

Benjamin Dancer is the author of Patriarch Run. The novel explores what would happen to the country in the event of a very powerful, Stuxnet-like attack. Learn more at BenjaminDancer.com.