Author Bios

Renata Bessi is a freelance journalist and contributor the Americas Program and Desinformémonos. She has published articles in Brazilian media: The Trecheiro newspaper magazine, Página 22, Repórter Brasil, Rede …

Priscila Mosqueda is a contributing writer for the Texas Observer, which has been covering the Citgo refinery in Corpus Christi for at least a decade.

Laura Garcia is an Education Outreach Intern at YES! and a graduate of the program in Political Science and International Relations at Saint Louis University. Molly Rusk is an …

Angelika Albaladejo researches and writes on issues of social protest, citizen security, human rights, gender-based violence and peacebuilding processes in Latin America. She recently completed a master's degree in …

Rowan Wolf is a sociologist, teacher, writer and activist. Her areas of interest include social justice, environment, and globalization/corporatization at the core. She frequently writes where these issues intersect …

Julia Paley is the director of immigration justice at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism.

The Rev. Howard Bess is a retired American Baptist minister, who lives in Palmer, Alaska.  His email address is [email protected].

Federico Fuentes was co-author with Roger Burbach and Michael Fox of Latin America's Turbulent Transitions: The Future of 21st Century Socialism and is a regular contributor to Green Left …

Robert Sharlet, a long time academic, is co-authoring a memoir of his brother Jeff - a Vietnam GI and, subsequently, a leader of GI protest against the war - …

Lois Weiner is a former teacher and union activist who is Professor Emerita at New Jersey City University. She writes widely on education and teachers unions, and is completing …