Authors

Danny Hoch Danny Hoch

Danny Hoch is an actor, writer and teacher. His book Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop was released last fall by Villard/Random House.

Apr 2, 2010

Joshua Gamson Joshua Gamson

Joshua Gamson, an associate professor of sociology at Yale University, is the author of Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity (Chicago).

Apr 2, 2010

Walter Dean Burnham Walter Dean Burnham

Walter Dean Burnham, professor of government at the University of Texas, specializes in the study of American politics in general and critical realignments in particular.

Apr 2, 2010

Robert W. Edgar Robert W. Edgar

The Rev. Dr. Robert W. Edgar is general secretary of the National Council of Churches, New York. An ordained United Methodist elder, he just concluded ten years as president of the…

Apr 2, 2010

Lawrence Joseph Lawrence Joseph

Lawrence Joseph's most recent books of poems are Into It and Codes, Precepts, Biases, and Taboos: Poems 1973-1993, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. His book of prose, The Game Changed, is published by the University of Michigan Press in its Poets on Poetry series. He is Tinnelly Professor of Law at St. John's University School of Law in New York City.

Apr 2, 2010

Kumi Naidoo Kumi Naidoo

Kumi Naidoo is the executive director of Greenpeace.  Previously, he was secretary general and CEO of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, dedicated to strengthening citizen participation and civil society worldwide. He grew up in South Africa and was later a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, from which he holds a PhD.

Apr 2, 2010

Russ Feingold Russ Feingold

Russ Feingold served as a Democratic senator from Wisconsin from 1993 to 2011 and is currently president of the American Constitution Society.

Apr 2, 2010

Wendy Steiner Wendy Steiner

Wendy Steiner is the Richard L. Fisher Professor of English Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania. She is an opera librettist and author of books such as The Scandal of Pleasure and The Real Real Thing. Her new opera, Biennale, will be produced at the Barnes Foundation in October 2013, and she is at work on a book about Village Health Works.

Apr 2, 2010

Nancy Beiles Nancy Beiles

Nancy Beiles, a reporter at Talk magazine, lives in Brooklyn.

Apr 2, 2010

Ed Morales Ed Morales

Ed Morales, a freelance writer based in New York, teaches at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. He co-directed a documentary, Whose Barrio?, about the gentrification of East Harlem.

Apr 2, 2010

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