Author Bios

Mathias Quackenbush lives in San Francisco, where he works as a dual-diagnosis Residential Counselor and devotes most of the remainder of his time to activism.

Arnie Gundersen is the chief engineer of Fairewinds Associates and is a former nuclear industry senior vice president and licensed reactor operator. He earned his master's degree in nuclear …

OtherWords columnist Marjorie E. Wood is a senior economic policy associate at the Institute for Policy Studies, the managing editor of Inequality.org, and the co-author of Executive Excess 2014: …

Claire's work focuses on what she has called Positive Genetics, which includes understanding genetic and environmental influences on positive outcomes, as well as investigating the role of genetics in …

Rizwan Zulfiqar Bhutta (@rizbhutta), writing for PeaceVoice, is an International broadcast journalist and regional affairs expert for South Asia, and works for peace and stability in the region.

Jessica Faieta is United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and UN Development Programme (UNDP) Director for Latin America and the Caribbean www.latinamerica.undp.org @jessicafaieta @undplac

Faiza Patel serves as co-director of the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program. She has testified before Congress opposing the dragnet surveillance of Muslims, organized advocacy efforts against …