Author Bios

Alexandra Halkin is a documentary filmmaker and the Director of Americas Media Initiative (americasmediainitiative.org), a non-profit organization that works with Cuban filmmakers living in Cuba. She is also a …

Anthropologist Sarah Rubato writes about our everyday lives and seeks the keys to understand our world through our little words, gestures and practices. She writes in English and French.

Jesse Franzblau is a policy analyst at Open the Government and a freedom of information advocate specializing in use of transparency laws to document US national security policy and …

John Duda is the  director of communications for the Democracy Collaborative.

Dave Reed is a community and cooperative organizer at the Fund for Democratic Communities.

Rebecca Cordell is a PhD student in Human Rights and Political Science, Former employee of Human Rights NGO Freedom from Torture, Institute for Democracy and Conflict Resolution Intern at …

S. M. (Mike) Miller, an economic-political sociologist and activist, has been a Guggenheim Fellow; senior fellow of the Commonwealth Institute; former chair of Boston University's Sociology Department; cofounder and …

Halyna Mokrushyna is currently enrolled in the Ph.D. program in sociology at the University of Ottawa and a part-time professor. Her doctoral project deals with the memory of Stalinist …

Lilia D. Monzó is assistant professor of education in the College of Educational Studies at Chapman University. Her research and scholarship are based upon a Marxist humanism and revolutionary …