Jane Yeh Jane Yeh
Dec 6, 2011
Stephanie Weiner Stephanie Weiner
Stephanie Weiner is a senior at Spanish River Community High School in Boca Raton, Florida.
Dec 6, 2011
Melanie Muller Melanie Muller
Melanie Muller is a Sophomore English and Mathematics major at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is a member of News Staff at the Daily Collegian, UMass's student newspaper, and an environmental activist.
Dec 6, 2011
Zoë Carpenter Zoë Carpenter
Zoë Carpenter is The Nation's assistant Washington editor. She has written for Rolling Stone, Guernica and the Poughkeepsie Journal, and has appeared on MSNBC, CNN, and other media outlets. Follow her on Twitter @ZoeSCarpenter.
Dec 6, 2011
William deBuys William deBuys
William deBuys is the author of seven books, including the just published A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest (a Pulitzer Prize finalist), and The Walk (an excerpt of which won a Pushcart Prize). He has long been involved in environmental affairs in the Southwest, including service as founding chairman of the Valles Caldera Trust, which administers the 87,000-acre Valles Caldera National Preserve in New Mexico.
Dec 5, 2011
Conor Beck Conor Beck
Conor Beck is a high school junior in South Portland, Maine, and is an active political member in his community. He has helped lead an initiative to ban tobacco use in his city's parks and beaches, and is an active member in student government. In the future, he hopes to study medicine or science.
Dec 2, 2011
Matthew Hickson Matthew Hickson
Matthew Hickson is a rising junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (major in business and minor in women's studies and social and economic justice). Matthew is a proud feminist and community activist; a student with a voracious appetite for learning and an undergrad with a passion for teaching and knowledge building. He hopes to one day organize a coalition of sustainable, worker-owned businesses for a cooperative economy.
Dec 2, 2011
Kevin Xiong Kevin Xiong
Kevin Xiong is a 16-year-old high school student going into his junior year at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. Outside of school, he loves to think critically about serious issues by analyzing their causes and effects. He is also a member of his high school’s mock trial team, sailing team, newspaper club and boys’ a cappella club. School affiliation: Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.
Dec 2, 2011
Alex Klein Alex Klein
Originally from London, Alex Klein is a Yale senior majoring in “ethics, politics and economics.” He is the editorials editor of the Yale Daily News, and is also an actor, playwright and member of the Viola Question, Yale’s improv comedy group. He has worked and written for the Times of London and the India Economic Times, and currently writes for The New Republic in Washington, DC.
Dec 2, 2011