Authors

Lee Fang Lee Fang

Lee Fang is a reporting fellow with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. He covers money in politics, conservative movements and lobbying. Lee’s work has resulted in multiple calls for hearings in Congress and the Federal Election Commission. He is author of The Machine: A Field Guide to the Resurgent Right, a recently published book on how the right-wing political infrastructure was rebuilt after President Obama's 2008 election. More on the book can be found at www.themachinebook.com.

Nov 16, 2011

Omneya El Naggar Omneya El Naggar

Omneya El Naggar is a writer and journalist who lives in the northern Egyptian city of Alexandria.

Nov 16, 2011

Merrill Gilfillan Merrill Gilfillan

Nov 16, 2011

Victoria Pardini & Aaida Samad Victoria Pardini & Aaida Samad

Victoria Pardini & Aaida Samad are undergraduate reporters for the student-run Daily Cal in Berkeley.

Nov 16, 2011

Brandon Hensley Brandon Hensley

Brandon Hensley, an undergraduate at Cal-State, Northridge, is a reporter for the student-run Daily Sundial.

Nov 15, 2011

Rachel Signer Rachel Signer

 Rachel Signer is a freelance journalist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her website is rachelsigner.com.

Nov 15, 2011

Ari Lipsitz and Jocelyn Silver Ari Lipsitz and Jocelyn Silver

Ari Lipsitz and Jocelyn Silver are student correspondents for the NYU Local.

Nov 15, 2011

Margaret Zhou Margaret Zhou

Margaret Zhou is a third year student at UC Berkeley, majoring in Comparative Literature with a minor in Global Poverty and Practice. For the past three years, Margaret has been active in several student organizations and activities including Students for Justice in Palestine, Poetry for the People, Asian American issues magazine hardboiled, and the Mixed Student Union.

Nov 14, 2011

Kirk Noden Kirk Noden

Kirk Noden is veteran community organizer who has successfully built community organizations in Chicago, Birmingham England, and Ohio.  Kirk currently directs the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a statewide alliance of eleven labor, community, and faith groups across the state and he serves on the board of Policy Matters Ohio, one of the state’s premier progressive think tanks. Kirk also founded the Mahoning Valley Organizing Collaborative, a broad based multi issue organization with twelve staff in Northeast Ohio that he started in 2007.   Kirk serves as a Community Affiliate of the Center for Working Class Studies at Youngstown State University and a board member of COHHIO, a statewide housing advocacy organization.  In his fourteen years as an organizer, he’s led campaigns on a variety of issues such as living wage, vacant properties, education reform, immigrant rights, and health equity.  He’s the grandson of a New Castle steelworker and a Westinghouse Factory union steward and was born and raised in Ohio and now lives in the city of Kent, OH with his wife Rosi and two boys Roberto and Emiliano.

Nov 11, 2011

Paolo Cravero Paolo Cravero

Paolo M.C. Cravero is a Nation intern and a freelance journalist who holds a Master's in International Affairs from The Graduate Institute, Geneva. His Twitter handle is @PaoloCravero.

Nov 11, 2011

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