Authors

Bill Gates Sr. Bill Gates Sr.

Bill Gates Sr., co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is co-author, with Chuck Collins, of Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes (Be…

Apr 2, 2010

Roger Hickey Roger Hickey

Roger Hickey is co-director of the Campaign for America’s Future (www.ourfuture.org).

Apr 2, 2010

Walter Mosley Walter Mosley

Walter Mosley is the author of the best-selling Easy Rawlins series of mysteries, the novel R.L.’s Dream, and the story collection Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, for w…

Apr 2, 2010

Gar Alperovitz Gar Alperovitz

Gar Alperovitz is the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland and co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative. He is the author, most recently, of What Then Must We Do? (Chelsea Green).

Apr 2, 2010

David Rubenstein David Rubenstein

David Rubenstein is a freelance journalist and former welder in Minneapolis.

Apr 2, 2010

Ann Powers Ann Powers

Ann Powers is a senior curator at Experience Music Project in Seattle. The author of Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America (Simon & Schuster), she has written extensively for the…

Apr 2, 2010

Jeff Chang Jeff Chang

Jeff Chang is the Executive Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University. He co-founded CultureStr/ke and ColorLines and is the author of Can’t Stop W…

Apr 2, 2010

Miles Marshall Lewis Miles Marshall Lewis

Miles Marshall Lewis, a former editor at Vibe and XXL magazines, is completing an essay collection tentatively titled The Death of Hiphop (Akashic), due out next summer. His essays…

Apr 2, 2010

Ivan Kreilkamp Ivan Kreilkamp

Ivan Kreilkamp teaches in the department of English at Indiana University. He’s written on pop music for the Washington Post, Village Voice, Spin, Rolling Stone and elsewhere…

Apr 2, 2010

Jenny Toomey Jenny Toomey

Jenny Toomey, who has played in many bands, runs the nonprofit Future of Music Coalition, which works at the intersection of music and policy.

Apr 2, 2010

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