Authors

Candice Bernd Candice Bernd

Candice Bernd is a reporter with Campus Progress. Follow her on Twitter @CandiceBernd.

Jan 11, 2013

Hari Kunzru Hari Kunzru

Hari Kunzru is a British novelist and journalist known for daring works of fiction exploring themes of today’s globalized world. His novels include The Impressionist, My Revolutions and Gods Without Men.

Jan 9, 2013

Staceyann Chin Staceyann Chin

Staceyann Chin is a spoken-word artist, performer, poet and LGBT rights activist widely known as a co-writer and performer in the Tony Award–winning Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam. Her books include The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir.

Jan 9, 2013

Billy Bragg Billy Bragg

Billy Bragg is a British singer/songwriter who fuses folk, punk and personal storytelling. His records include Talking With the Taxman About Poetry, William Bloke and a series of records with Wilco called Mermaid Avenue featuring new Woody Guthrie songs. Bragg is the founder of Jail Guitar Doors UK.

Jan 9, 2013

Yetta Kurland Yetta Kurland

Yetta Kurland is a civil rights attorney, educator, small-business owner and community activist. She is also the host of Yetta Kurland LIVE!, a popular weekly progressive talk-radio show on WWRL 1600 AM that focuses on civil rights and social justice issues in New York City.

Jan 9, 2013

DJ Spooky DJ Spooky

DJ Spooky (Paul D. Miller), a hip-hop musician, turntablist, producer, author, professor, philosopher and artist, is currently the resident artist at the Metropolitan Museum of New York. Spooky’s latest book is The Book of Ice.

Jan 9, 2013

Stanislao G. Pugliese Stanislao G. Pugliese

Stanislao G. Pugliese is a professor of modern European history and the Queensboro UNICO Distinguished Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies at Hofstra University. His book Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone won the Fraenkel Prize in London, the Premio Flaiano in Italy and the Howard Marraro Prize from the American Historical Association.

Jan 9, 2013

Alexia Nader Alexia Nader

Alexia Nader is a freelance writer, researcher, and assistant editor at The Brooklyn Quarterly.

Jan 3, 2013

Jake Naughton Jake Naughton

Jake Naughton is a freelance photographer and digital producer based in Washington, DC.

Jan 2, 2013

Maggie Gray Maggie Gray

Maggie Gray is an assistant professor of political science at Adelphi University.  She is completing a book project about Hudson Valley farmworkers titled Labor and the Locavore, which is under contract with the University of California Press.

Jan 2, 2013

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