Author Bios

Ben Cohen is the co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream and the founder and head stamper of StampStampede.org, a nonprofit dedicated to stamping big money out of politics.

Matthew Rothschild is the senior editor of The Progressive magazine (from 1994), which is one of the leading voices for peace and social justice in this country. Rothschild has …

Claudia Costa is a journalist at CSP-Conlutas and teaches postgraduate courses in Social Communication at Metropolitan College United (FMU) in Sao Paulo. She also worked as an intern at …

Thomas P. Slaughter is the author of ‘Independence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution’ (Hill & Wang) and the Arthur R. Miller Professor of History at the University …

Christian Trejbal is a member of the board of directors of the Association of Opinion Journalists, writes for Opinion in a Pinch and is an open government chairman for …

Cherise Charleswell, MPH is a Womanist, author/writer, poet, blogger, entrepreneur, host & producer of the Wombanist Views radio show, public health practitioner; with a background in the biological sciences …

Amanda Zamora is senior engagement editor at ProPublica. Previously, she spent more than nine years as a digital producer and editor at The Washington Post.

Vanessa Rancaño is a host and producer at Making Contact.