Jorge Volpi Jorge Volpi
Jorge Volpi, a novelist and essayist from Mexico City, was awarded the Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa for his novel La tejedora de sombras (The Shadow Spinner). His most recent book published in English is In Spite of the Dark Silence (2010).
Dec 6, 2011
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