Author Bios

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.

Andrés Cala is an award-winning Colombian journalist, columnist and analyst specializing in geopolitics and energy. He is the lead author of America’s Blind Spot: Chávez, Energy, and US Security.

George Gao is a writer for IPS News.

Sam Koplinka-Loehr is a graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont with a major in Environmental Justice. His research and writing focuses on community empowerment, indigenous solidarity and environmental justice. …