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
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
Dick Dahl Dick Dahl
Dick Dahl is a freelance writer in Somerville, Massachusetts. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe Magazine and The National Law Journal.
Apr 2, 2010
Héctor Timerman Héctor Timerman
Héctor Timerman was 22 when his father, Jacobo Timerman, was arrested. Héctor worked to free him until advised to leave the country for his own safety. In 1989 he ret…
Apr 2, 2010
David Krieger David Krieger
David Krieger is a founder and president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (www.wagingpeace.org).
Apr 2, 2010