Authors

Jeremy Pikser Jeremy Pikser

Jeremy Pikser is the co-writer of the film Bulworth, for which he won the LA Critics Award, as well as Oscar, Golden Globe and Writer’s Guild nominations for best screenplay. War, Inc., a satire about US policy in the Middle East, which he wrote with Mark Leyner and John Cusack, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008. He also worked on the script and production of Reds. He is currently Vice-president of the Writer’s Guild of America East and collaborating on a screenplay about William Kunstler with Walter Bernstein.

May 17, 2013

Melanie Springer Mock Melanie Springer Mock

Melanie Springer Mock is a Professor of English at George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon. Her most recent book is Just Moms: Conveying Justice in an Unjust World, published in 2010. She blogs about (and deconstruct) images of women embedded in evangelical popular culture at Ain’t I a Woman?  

May 16, 2013

Rose-Ellen Lessy Rose-Ellen Lessy

Rose-Ellen Lessy teaches at NYU and The New School. She is working on a book about families and breast cancer.

May 16, 2013

Emily Crockett Emily Crockett

Emily Crockett is a reporter with Campus Progress. Follow her on Twitter @emilycrockett.

May 16, 2013

Nathalie Handal Nathalie Handal

May 15, 2013

Paul Baumann Paul Baumann

Paul Baumann is the editor of Commonweal.

May 15, 2013

Alison Stine Alison Stine

May 15, 2013

David A. Love David A. Love

David A. Love is the Executive Director of Witness to Innocence, a national nonprofit organization that empowers exonerated death row prisoners and their family members to become effective leaders in the movement to abolish the death penalty.

May 13, 2013

Keegan O’Brien Keegan O’Brien

Keegan O'Brien, an American Studies major at University of Massachusetts Boston, is a longtime Boston based LGBTQ youth and social justice activist.

May 13, 2013

Eesha Pandit Eesha Pandit

Eesha Pandit is a writer and activist who believes in social justice movements, the power of intersectionality, feminism, sisterhood and the power of art. Her writing can be found at The Crunk Feminist Collective, Feministing, Salon, RH Reality Check, Feministe and In These Times. She’s also a longtime human rights activist and most recently served as Executive Director of Men Stopping Violence. She’s also worked with Breakthrough, Raising Women’s Voices, the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program, Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard and Amnesty International Women’s Human Rights Program.

May 13, 2013

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