Author Bios

Leela Corman is an illustrator, cartoonist and Middle Eastern dancer. She studied painting, printmaking and illustration at Massachusetts College of Art and won a Xeric Grant for her first …

Shannon Hoffman writes for PeaceVoice, studies democracy at Portland State University, and is a health care professional.

Elliot Adams is a Veterans For Peace (VFP) member from New York State and past president of VFP’s National Board.

Chris Moore-Backman is author of The Gandhian Iceberg: A Nonviolence Manifesto for the Age of the Great Turning and producer of Bringing Down the New Jim Crow, a radio documentary series examining the …

Kathleen Geier is a writer and public policy researcher who lives in Chicago. She has written for The Washington Monthly, Salon, Reuters, and other publications. Find her on Twitter: …

Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo is passionate about cooperatives as a community economic development tool and lifestyle strategy. She has an MBA and a Masters in Community Economic Development. She is …

Philip A Farruggio is son and grandson of Brooklyn, NYC longshoremen. He is a free lance columnist (found on Truthout.org, TheSleuthJournal.com, Worldnewstrust.com, The Intrepid Report ,Nation of Change, The …

Owen B. McCormack is a teacher in New York City. He holds a master's degree in history from the City College of New York and a master's degree in …

Luciana Bohne is co-founder of Film Criticism, a journal of cinema studies, and teaches at Edinboro University in Pennsylvania. She can be reached at: [email protected]