Author Bios

Fran Teplitz serves as Green America's the director of social investing and policy.

Jim Campana is an AFGE representative and works for Social Security in Michigan.

Grace Davie is Associate Professor of History at Queens College-CUNY and the author of the forthcoming book The Poverty Question and the Human Sciences in South Africa.

William R. Polk is a veteran foreign policy consultant, author and professor who taught Middle Eastern studies at Harvard. President John F. Kennedy appointed Polk to the State Department’s Policy …

Robert Richter is a parish priest in Arlington, Virginia, and attended the April 2014 Labor Notes Conference.

Dr. David Gustaf Thompson holds a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology, and is a licensed, practicing psychologist in Minneapolis, MN.  He also teaches psychology at The Minnesota School of …

Liz Pleasant is a graduate of the University of Washington's program in Anthropology, and an online editorial intern at YES! Follow her on Twitter @lizpleasant.

 Daniel Larkins is a writer and teacher from New Jersey. His writing has appeared in New Politics, New Ohio Review, BorderSenses, and a number of blogs.