Author Bios

Yasmine Ryan is a freelance New Zealand journalist based in Tunisia. She previously worked for Al Jazeera English and The International Herald Tribune.

Roger Annis is a union activist living in Vancouver who writes regularly on topics of social justice and peace. He is the editor of the website The New Cold War: Ukraine and …

Ingrid Burrington lives on a small island off the coast of America. Her website is www.lifewinning.com.

Karen Hansen-Kuhn is the international program director at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.

Marty Wolson teaches economics and is the director of the Higgins Labor Studies Program at the University of Notre Dame. 

Chad Sommer was a 2011 TFA corps member and taught 4th grade at Chicago’s Rudyard Kipling Elementary School. He was the first and only TFA corps member at the …

Rosana Cruz is the Associate Director of Voices of Formerly Incarcerated Persons. Rosana came to VOTE from her position as Co-Director of Safe Streets/Strong Communities. Previously Rosana worked with …

Amanda Ufheil-Somers is the assistant editor of Middle East Report, published by the Middle East Research and Information Project. MERIP.org

Zoe Brent is the Creative Director and Cuba Tour Coordinator for Food Sovereignty Tours. Zoe was Food Sovereignty Tours’ first program coordinator. She began developing the program in early …

Matt Canfield is a fifth-year PhD Candidate in Anthropology at New York University and an organizing committee member of GSOC-UAW.