Author Bios

Tom Brennan is a contributor to SpeakOut.

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez is chief strategist for Ebury Partners.

Respect ABQ Women is a group of women, families, and allied organizations dedicated to protecting a woman's ability to make private medical decisions with her family and doctor. 

Debbie Metke works with the Democratic World Federalists, the United Nations Association, the World Parliament Campaign, the World Federalist Movement, 350.org, Peace Action and GlobalSolutions.org, She is currently authoring …

Ahmed R. Teleb is a freelance journalist and political scientist-in-training. He writes filasophia.com and curates twisdoms.com. Follow him on Twitter @AhmedRTeleb.

Katherine Smith PhD, is a regular contributor to the home of Thought Provoking Articles and can be reached at  [email protected].

Nell Abernathy is the Program Manager for the Roosevelt Institute's Bernard L. Schwartz Rediscovering Government Initiative.