Author Bios

Sybrina Fulton is the mother of slain teen Trayvon Martin.

Mitra Sticklen is a writer for Occupy.com.

Alex Witt hosts the MSNBC show ‘Weekends with Alex Witt’ on Saturdays from 7-8 a.m. ET and noon-2 p.m. ET, and Sundays from noon-2 p.m. ET. Since joining the …

Stafford Smith has a law background. In the 1970s, he mostly worked for small Northwest Indian tribes. Since the early 1980s, he has been involved with land use and environmental issues, …

Les Adler is a writer for OpEdNews.

Chris Esh is program associate with Washington Public Interest Group, serving as the Democracy Program Advocate. He was previously a campaign director with Fair Share Alliance in Arizona and …

Alexandria Petersburg writes for StopPatriarchy.org. 

Emily Yates is a writer in many modes, from songs and poetry to essays and articles. She began writing professionally in 2002, when she enlisted in the US Army …

Mike Tigas is the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellow at ProPublica. He previously worked at the Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Wash.), where he helped build news applications and a new content management system. …

Arij Riahi is a legally trained writer based in Montreal. Arij tweets as @arijactually.