Author Bios

Wendy Elisheva Somerson, one of the founders of the Seattle chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace, believes that combining art, activism, and ritual can help us envision and create …

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 - …