Author Bios

CEO, Crops for the Future Research Centre and Professor of Global Food Security at University of Nottingham.

Jessica Ramos is a Los Angeles freelance writer and nonprofit grant writer. Jessica is passionate about animal welfare, sustainability and green issues. A borderline obsessive cat lover, Jessica probably …

Phil Donahue and ‘The Donahue Show’ were honored with 20 Daytime Emmy Awards, including nine for Outstanding Host and a George Foster Peabody Broadcasting Journalism Award. For his outstanding …

Robert Faturechi is a reporter at ProPublica covering money in politics.

Marianne Lavelle is a staff writer for The Daily Climate, an independent news service covering energy, the environment and climate change. Follow her on Twitter @mlavelles.

Rob Brown is the director of the Cooperative Development Institute's Business Ownership Solutions program, which assists companies attempting to become worker-owned cooperatives. He worked closely with the workers of …

Noemi Giszpenc is executive director of the Cooperative Development Institute.

Brian Van Slyke is a co-founder of the TESA Collective. TESA works with organizations to create tools and games for their cause and also publishes its own games, such as Rise …

Dennis Worden is the legislative director for the Native American Contractors Association and a Coeur d' Alene Tribal member. He is with the Center for Global Policy Solutions Greenhouse …