Author Bios

I have been completely devoted to studying the Middle Ages for over twenty years. As a child I always loved historical buildings, medieval fiction and film, fantasy literature, and …

Writer, filmmaker Rey Ventura is the author of Underground in Japan (1992) and a sequel, Into the Country of Standing Men (2007). His film Dekasegi (Migrant Workers, 1989) debuted …

Christina Ionela Neokleous is a PhD student in Accounting at University of Essex. She also holds BA in Accounting and Finance and MRes in Accounting, Finance and Management from …

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 …