Author Bios

Greg Ruggiero is an editor for City Lights Books. He began visiting Zapatista communities in August 1999, an offense for which he was detained, interrogated, and expelled from Mexico …

Erica Glaser is a second-year student at Columbia University with an interest in human rights in Latin America and a prospective major in neuroscience.

Beatrice Edwards is both the executive director and international program director at the Governmental Accountability Project. Edwards has 30 years of experience working on labor issues, anti-corruption measures and …

John Weeks is Professor Emeritus of the University of London and author of a new book, Economics of the 1%: How mainstream economics serves the rich, obscures reality and …

Gerry is a Malaysian based marine ecologist, Research Fellow and Advisor to the National University of Malaysia, and marine consultant to the Andaman Resort, Langkawi.

Joeva Rock is a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at American University in Washington, DC focusing on colonial legacies in West Africa. Follow her on Twitter: @southsidetrees.

Kent Shifferd, Ph.D., (kentshifferd@gmail) is an historian who taught environmental history and ethics for 25 years at Wisconsin's Northland College and is former Executive Director of the Wisconsin Institute …

Victoria Bassetti is a Brennan Center contributor. She is the author of Electoral Dysfunction: A Survival Manual for American Voters, published by The New Press in 2012.