Author Bios

Christen A. Smith is assistant professor of African and African diaspora studies and anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. Her forthcoming book, Afro-Paradise: The Black Body, Violence …

Charina Nadura is the digital assistant at BillMoyers.com. She was previously a multimedia news production fellow at Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman. While there, she helped produce segments on …

Angela Gutchess is an associate professor of psychology at Brandeis University

Mary Alice Crim is the field director for Free Press.

Jessica M. Eaglin is Counsel in the Brennan Center’s Justice Program where she addresses the overreliance on incarceration in the United States. With expertise in federal and state sentencing …

Sara Roy is an Associate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University.

Julio Sharp-Wasserman is a graduate of Pomona College, where he studied political philosophy. He now lives in Boston, working as a freelance politics writer and musician. He also writes …

Patricia O'Brien is an associate professor at the Jane Addams College of Social Work at University of Illinois at Chicago.

Almuth Ernsting helped to found Biofuelwatch in 2006. She has researched and published about a wide range of issues related to bioenergy, including the climate, social and biodiversity impacts …