Purvi Shah Purvi Shah
Purvi Shah is the director of the Bertha Justice Institute at the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Apr 29, 2010
Farai Chideya Farai Chideya
Farai Chideya, an author and broadcaster, is Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
Apr 29, 2010
Richard Blanco Richard Blanco
Richard Blanco's poems have appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, Ploughshares, Michigan Quarterly Review and TriQuarterly Review; and several anthologies including, The Best American Poetry, Great American Prose Poems, Breadloaf Anthology of New American Poets and American Poetry: The Next Generation. He has been featured on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, and various conferences and venues including the Miami Book Fair, The Southern Writers Conference, The Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, the Dodge Poetry Festival, and The Poetry Center at Smith College. Blanco is recipient of two Florida Artist Fellowships, a Residency Fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and is a John Ciardi Fellow of the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. His books include City of a Hundred Fires, Directions to The Beach of the Dead, and Looking for The Gulf Motel, which was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2012.
Apr 29, 2010
Fred Abrahams Fred Abrahams
Apr 29, 2010
Diana Spatz Diana Spatz
Diana Spatz is executive director of LIFETIME, a statewide organization of low-income parents in California who are pursuing postsecondary education and training as their pathway out of poverty.
Apr 29, 2010
Floyd Abrams Floyd Abrams
Floyd Abrams, a senior partner in the firm of Cahill Gordon and Reindel LLP, is the author of Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment (2005).
Apr 29, 2010
David Halperin David Halperin
David Halperin is a Washington DC lawyer and policy advocate. He blogs at RepublicReport.org.
Apr 29, 2010
Thomas Goltz Thomas Goltz
Thomas Goltz teaches courses on the Middle East and the Caucasus region at Montana State University. He is also the author of the “Caucasus Triptych” of Azerbaijan Diary, Chechnya Diary and Georgia Diary, as well as other books and articles. Chechnya Diary, published by St. Martin’s Press, is available on Kindle.
Apr 29, 2010
Russell Mokhiber Russell Mokhiber
Russell Mokhiber is editor of the Corporate Crime Reporter, a weekly legal newsletter based in Washington, D.C.
Apr 29, 2010
James Ridgeway James Ridgeway
James Ridgeway edits Solitary Watch (solitarywatch.com), with Jean Casella. He is a 2012 Soros Justice Media Fellow and also writes frequently about criminal justice issues for Mother Jones.
Apr 29, 2010