Jesse Lava Jesse Lava
Jesse Lava's career is about transforming hearts and minds to promote social justice. He now runs Brave New Foundation's Beyond Bars campaign, which produces videos and engages social media to fight mass incarceration in the United States. The campaign's most important job is storytelling; it inspires change by illuminating the lives of those ensnared in our nation's dysfunctional criminal justice system. Previously, Jesse has done communications for progressive groups, worked to reclaim the national values debate from the religious right, and campaigned door-to-door for political candidates. He got his bachelor's from Wesleyan University and a master's in public policy from Harvard University.
Oct 23, 2013
David Sheen David Sheen
David Sheen is a journalist, writer and filmmaker originally from Toronto, Canada, and now living in Dimona, Israel. He has worked as a staff reporter and editor for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz and is now a contributor for various local, regional and international publications. His documentary on ecological architecture, First Earth, was published by PM Press in 2010, and he gave a lecture on that topic at TEDxJohannesburg later that same year. His website is www.davidsheen.com and he tweets at @davidsheen.
Oct 21, 2013
Lauren Woll Lauren Woll
Lauren Woll is an undergraduate student activist at the University of Texas, Austin.
Oct 21, 2013
Aaron Miguel Cantú Aaron Miguel Cantú
Aaron Cantú writes often at the intersection of political economy and the criminal justice system. He is also an associate researcher for Project CBD and a former intern at The Nation. He lives in Brooklyn. Follow him on Twitter @aaronmiguel_.
Oct 17, 2013
François Lenoir François Lenoir
Oct 16, 2013
Jason Motlagh Jason Motlagh
Jason Motlagh (jasonmotlagh.com, @jasonmotlagh on Twitter) is a writer, photographer and filmmaker who focuses on conflicts and human rights issues across Asia.
Oct 16, 2013
David Karpf David Karpf
David Karpf, an assistant professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University, is the author of The MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy (Oxford).
Oct 16, 2013
Hannah Borowsky Hannah Borowsky
Hannah Borowsky is a Junior at Harvard College concentrating in Biology. Hannah grew up in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. She is on the board of Divest Harvard, on the Editorial Board of The Harvard Crimson, and a Harvard First-Year Outdoor Program Leader.
Oct 15, 2013
Robert Jervis Robert Jervis
Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics at Columbia University, is the author of System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life and Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War.
Oct 14, 2013