Author Bios

Victoria M. Young is a veterinarian, parent, author of The Crucial Voice of the People: Education's Missing Ingredient, and long-time supporter of the community education concept. 

Veronika Kyrylenko, Ph.D., is a research associate at GeoStrategic Analysis, Arlington, Virginia.

Dave Saldana is the director, writer and producer of Keystone PipeLIES Exposed, a new short film that is a production of the Center for Media and Democracy Investigative Fund.

Doug Forbes is a writer and marketing consultant in Los Angeles. As a fifty-year-old with a one-year-old daughter, he never thought he could be this happy about sleep deprivation.

Henry Pierson Curtis is a senior cops and courts reporter for the Orlando Sentinel.

Lauren Chief Elk is cofounder of the Save Wiyabi Project, a researcher, organizer and antiviolence educator.

Sam Gilbert is a journalist based out of Ramallah, Palestine.

Joe Wainio is a public school teacher and activist in San Diego, California.

Julia Carrie Wong is a freelance journalist living in San Francisco. You can follow her on Twitter @juliacarriew or email her at julia.carrie.wong [at] gmail.com.