Author Bios

Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich is an independent researcher and writer with a focus on U.S. foreign policy and the role of lobby groups in influencing US foreign policy.

Arnold ‘Skip’ Oliver writes for PeaceVoice and is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Heidelberg University in Tiffin, Ohio. A Vietnam veteran, he belongs to Veterans For Peace, and …

Daniel N. White has lived in Austin, Texas, for a lot longer than he originally planned to. He reads a lot more than we are supposed to, particularly about …

Jonathan Pelto is a blogger and advocacy journalist in Connecticut. Pelto is also the founder and manager of the Education Bloggers Network, a confederation of nearly 200 bloggers writing …

Lucy McKeon’s work has appeared in the Boston Review, the Paris Review, The Nation, Guernica, and Salon. To read more visit lucymckeon.com.

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian is a contributing editor at Dissent and an editor at Al Jazeera America and the New Inquiry.

Adam Stone a Ph.D. student in Educational Neuroscience at Gallaudet University and a research assistant with the Petitto Brain and Language Laboratory (BL2) and the NSF Center on Visual …

Terrell Jermaine Starr is a senior editor at AlterNet. Follow him on Twitter @Russian_Starr.

Sharda Sekaran is managing director of communications for the Drug Policy Alliance.

Charlotte Maria Sáenz is Media and Education Coordinator for Other Worlds and teaches at the California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco, where she is a founding member of the …