Authors

Lisa Riordan Seville Lisa Riordan Seville

Lisa Riordan Seville is a reporter based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has appeared on MSNBC.com, Salon.com, The Daily Beast and The Crime Report, among other publications.

Apr 10, 2012

Hannah Rappleye Hannah Rappleye

Hannah Rappleye is an independent reporter living in Brooklyn, NY. She has reported in East and South Africa, and focuses her work on criminal justice and human rights issues in the United States and abroad. Her work has appeared on MSNBC.com, Salon.com, in the Mail & Guardian and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.

Apr 10, 2012

Dorothee Benz Dorothee Benz

Dorothee Benz is an editor, journalist, web manager and communications strategist who has worked for social justice organizations and causes for over two decades. She is currently the director of communications at the Center for Constitutional Rights, as well as the chair of Methodists in New Directions.

Apr 10, 2012

Janine Balekdjian Janine Balekdjian

Janine Balekdjian is a third-year Slavic Studies major at Columbia University. She is the President of the Columbia Democrats. 

Apr 8, 2012

Hla Lwin Shwe Hla Lwin Shwe

Hla Lwin Shwe is a reporter who writes regularly on Burmese politics.

Apr 4, 2012

Brentin Mock Brentin Mock

Brentin Mock covers national politics for Colorlines. He previously served as lead reporter for Voting Rights Watch 2012, covering the challenges presented by new voter ID laws, suppression of voter registration drives and other attempts to limit electoral power of people of color.  Brentin is also a contributor for Demos’ blog PolicyShop, where he covers voting rights and civil rights; and also a blogger for Grist.org, where he writes about environmental justice. You can read some of his other work at Next American City, Facing South, The Root, In These Times, American Prospect and The Washington Post.

Apr 3, 2012

Tristram Wolff Tristram Wolff

Tristram Wolff is a doctoral candidate in com­parative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. His translation of The Will to Sickness, by Gerhard Roth, was published by Burning Deck.

Apr 3, 2012

Lucy Xiong Lucy Xiong

Lucy Xiong is a freshman at NYU and an activist with NYU4OWS.

Mar 29, 2012

Eric Bost Eric Bost

Eric Bost is a senior at UNC, Chapel Hill.

Mar 29, 2012

Zoë Schlanger Zoë Schlanger

Zoë Schlanger was a summer 2012 Nation intern and current associate editor of Student Nation. She works at Talking Points Memo as front-page runner and is Editor-In-Chief of the daily independent student blog NYU Local. She has worked as an intern at The Rachel Maddow Show and at the newspaper El País in Madrid. Follow her on Twitter and check out more of her work here.

Mar 28, 2012

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