Author Bios

Susan Freinkel is the author of Plastic: A Toxic Love Story and American Chestnut: The Life, Death and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree.

Tony Brown is Executive Director of Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA), a nonprofit organization that provides thousands of at-risk youth with free, exceptional after-school programs in academics, arts and …

Michael Gallagher, a coeval of Sr. Megan and a former Jesuit seminarian, served as a paratrooper during the Korean War.  His book on Catholic activists, The Laws of Heaven, won …

Sarah Galli is the Political Action co-chair of Women’s Information Network (WIN.NYC). She is also the Founder & Executive Producer of Born for Broadway, whose mission is to raise funds for …

Sarah Rosenblatt (AKA Syan Rose) is a comic artist and freelance illustrator based in Seattle, Washington. Her work revolves around anti-racist feminism and examinations of political and cultural resistance. See more …

Megan McCloskey covers the military for ProPublica. Previously she was the national correspondent at Stars and Stripes.

Trudy Bond is a counseling psychologist in independent practice in Toledo, Ohio. She is a member of the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology and a past member of the …

Andrea Luquetta is the policy advocate at the California Reinvestment Coalition, a nonprofit organization that advocates for fair and equal access to banking and other financial services for California's …

Cathy Herbert earned her bachelor's degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her master's degree from the University of Delaware. During a career as a painter, her …