Natalya Estemirova Natalya Estemirova
Natalia Estemirova, an activist with the human rights group Memorial, is the first recipient of the RAW in WAR Anna Politkovskaya Award for women human rights defenders in war and…
Apr 2, 2010
Ryan Thoreson Ryan Thoreson
Ryan Thoreson, co-chair of the Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters’ Alliance from 2005-2006, is a Rhodes Scholar studying social anthropology at Oxford…
Apr 2, 2010
William Fuller William Fuller
Apr 2, 2010
Emily Berman Emily Berman
Emily Berman is a Katz Fellow at the Liberty and National Security Project at New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice.
Apr 2, 2010
Jane Smiley Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley is a novelist and an essayist. Her most recent novel is Golden Age, published by Knopf. Her most recent collection of essays, The Questions That Matter Most (Heyday Boo…
Apr 2, 2010
U Thangara Linkhara U Thangara Linkhara
U Thangara Linkhara is abbot of the Dhamma Yeiktha Monastery in Myanmar’s main city of Yangon.
Apr 2, 2010
Akbar Ganji Akbar Ganji
Akbar Ganji is an Iranian journalist and dissident who spent six years in prison for exposing rights abuses committed by Iran’s fundamentalist regime. His work has appeared i…
Apr 2, 2010
Jennifer Moxley Jennifer Moxley
Jennifer Moxley teaches at the University of Maine and is the poetry editor of The Baffler. Her most recent book of poems is Clampdown (Flood). Author photograph courtesy of John Sarsgard
Apr 2, 2010
Jeffrey Yang Jeffrey Yang
Jeffrey Yang is the author of the poetry books An Aquarium and the forthcoming Vanishing-Line. He is the translator of Su Shi's East Slope and a collection of classical Chinese poems called Rhythm 226. Yang is also the co-editor (with Natasha Wimmer) of Two Lines: Some Kind of Beautiful Signal, and the editor of Birds, Beasts, and Seas: Nature Poems from New Directions. He is currently working on a translation of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo's June Fourth Elegies. Photograph by Nina Subin.
Apr 2, 2010