Authors

Jesse Hagopian Jesse Hagopian

Jesse Hagopian is the editor and contributing author to More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing (Haymarket Books, 2014) and an associate editor for Rethinking Schools magazine. Jesse teaches history and is the Black Student Union adviser at Garfield High School, the site of the historic boycott of the MAP standardized test. He recipient of the 2013 “Secondary School Teacher of the Year” award from the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences. A survivor of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Jesse is a Haitian human rights activist. Follow Jesse on his blog at www.iamaneducator.com or on Twitter: @jessedhagopian

Feb 2, 2015

Hassan Jabareen Hassan Jabareen

Hassan Jabareen, a lawyer, is founder and general director of Adalah—The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel.

Jan 29, 2015

Manish Swarup Manish Swarup

Jan 28, 2015

Michelle D. Schwartz Michelle D. Schwartz

Jan 28, 2015

Jon Liss Jon Liss

Jon Liss is the executive director of New Virginia Majority, a social-justice advocacy group.

Jan 27, 2015

Tom Finn Tom Finn

Tom Finn, a journalist based in London with Middle East Eye, has reported from Yemen and Egypt for The Guardian and Reuters News Agency.

Jan 26, 2015

Christopher Richards Christopher Richards

Jan 26, 2015

Juan Medina Juan Medina

Jan 21, 2015

Jake Johnston Jake Johnston

Jake Johnston is a Research Associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) in Washington D.C. He is the lead author for CEPR’s Haiti: Relief and Reconstruction Watch blog and has authored papers on Haiti concerning the ongoing cholera epidemic, aid accountability and transparency and the U.S. foreign aid system. His articles have been published in outlets such as Boston Review, The Hill, AlterNet and Truthout.

Jan 21, 2015

David Hajdu David Hajdu

David Hajdu is the music critic of The Nation. Hadju is a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and has written on the arts for numerous publications, including The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair. As an editor and magazine writer, Hajdu has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award several times, and his articles and essays have been selected for a number of anthologies, including Best Music Writing, Best American Magazine Writing, The New York Times Arts & Culture Reader, and Best American Comics Writing. Hadju is the award-winning author of four books: Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn; Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña; The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America; and Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture. He is a three-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and two-time winner of the ASCAP Deems-Taylor Award. Hadju is presently at work on a history of popular music, to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Jan 20, 2015

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