Authors

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

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

Kristin Eliasberg Kristin Eliasberg

Kristin Eliasberg writes frequently about the law.

Apr 2, 2010

James Ledbetter James Ledbetter

James Ledbetter is the chief content officer of Clarim Media and the author, most recently, of One Nation Under Gold: How One Precious Metal Has Dominated the American Imagination…

Apr 2, 2010

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