Author Bios

Brett Fleishman is a senior analyst for 350.org.

Hénia Belalia, a French-Algerian native, is a climate justice and migrant rights defender, a facilitator, a theatre director and a day-dreamer of collective liberation. Her work is defined by …

Hilary Tone is the Education Program Director at Media Matters after joining the organization as an Assistant Editor in September 2012. She previously did communications work for non-profit organizations …

Carlos Maza has been a researcher at Equality Matters since February of 2011. He graduated from Wake Forest University in 2010 with a degree in political science.

Thelma Mejía has been working for IPS since 1987, when she started collaborating with the agency on subjects relating to childhood and gender. She took part in the Programa …

Thomas Hintze is an activist, writer and photographer from New York. He is a frequent contributor to Alternet and Waging Nonviolence, where he covers civil liberties and sometimes reviews …

Fran Moreland Johns is a freelance writer, activist and author of Perilous Times: An inside look at abortion before – and after – Roe v Wade. 

Samantha Sarra is a journalist and activist and one of the principal investigators on Bonding Through Bars, an International Research Roundtable at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies …