William deBuys William deBuys
William deBuys is the author of seven books, including the just published A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest (a Pulitzer Prize finalist), and The Walk (an excerpt of which won a Pushcart Prize). He has long been involved in environmental affairs in the Southwest, including service as founding chairman of the Valles Caldera Trust, which administers the 87,000-acre Valles Caldera National Preserve in New Mexico.
Dec 5, 2011
Conor Beck Conor Beck
Conor Beck is a high school junior in South Portland, Maine, and is an active political member in his community. He has helped lead an initiative to ban tobacco use in his city's parks and beaches, and is an active member in student government. In the future, he hopes to study medicine or science.
Dec 2, 2011
Matthew Hickson Matthew Hickson
Matthew Hickson is a rising junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (major in business and minor in women's studies and social and economic justice). Matthew is a proud feminist and community activist; a student with a voracious appetite for learning and an undergrad with a passion for teaching and knowledge building. He hopes to one day organize a coalition of sustainable, worker-owned businesses for a cooperative economy.
Dec 2, 2011
Kevin Xiong Kevin Xiong
Kevin Xiong is a 16-year-old high school student going into his junior year at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. Outside of school, he loves to think critically about serious issues by analyzing their causes and effects. He is also a member of his high school’s mock trial team, sailing team, newspaper club and boys’ a cappella club. School affiliation: Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.
Dec 2, 2011
Alex Klein Alex Klein
Originally from London, Alex Klein is a Yale senior majoring in “ethics, politics and economics.” He is the editorials editor of the Yale Daily News, and is also an actor, playwright and member of the Viola Question, Yale’s improv comedy group. He has worked and written for the Times of London and the India Economic Times, and currently writes for The New Republic in Washington, DC.
Dec 2, 2011
Ashley Arkhurst Ashley Arkhurst
Ashley Arkhurst is a 17-year-old African-American female born in Syracuse, New York. She was born on June 9, 1994 and is the older of two siblings, Ato and Nigel. As a child of a proud black American woman and a West-African man, she always was cognizant of heritage as an African-American and was drawn to poetry. As a young child she had the opportunity to attend a small private Catholic, predominately black elementary school, Cathedral School, located in Downtown Syracuse. Today, she continues to remain passionate about writing, poetry and social justice. She seeks to better understand what it means to be a member of a minority in America and influence how America’s perceptive minorities for the better. She graduated from Manlius Pebble Hill on May 25, 2011. She plans to attend Wesleyan University and to achieve a double major in African-American studies and government, and also tell America truths through lyrical expression.
Dec 2, 2011
Jake Shoemaker Jake Shoemaker
Jake Shoemaker is heading into his senior year at Dartmouth College. An American history major, Shoemaker plans on teaching and writing upon graduation. Shoemaker, who enjoys cooking and playing pool, is also a member of the Dartmouth College cross-country and track and field teams.
Dec 2, 2011
Hannah Moon Hannah Moon
Hannah Moon is a freshman at Fordham University, and the winner of the 2011 Nation Student Writing Contest. A New York City native, she lives in Brooklyn with her family.
Dec 2, 2011
Bryce Wilson Stucki Bryce Wilson Stucki
Bryce Wilson Stucki is a student at Virginia Tech.
Dec 2, 2011