Kirk Noden Kirk Noden
Kirk Noden is veteran community organizer who has successfully built community organizations in Chicago, Birmingham England, and Ohio. Kirk currently directs the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a statewide alliance of eleven labor, community, and faith groups across the state and he serves on the board of Policy Matters Ohio, one of the state’s premier progressive think tanks. Kirk also founded the Mahoning Valley Organizing Collaborative, a broad based multi issue organization with twelve staff in Northeast Ohio that he started in 2007. Kirk serves as a Community Affiliate of the Center for Working Class Studies at Youngstown State University and a board member of COHHIO, a statewide housing advocacy organization. In his fourteen years as an organizer, he’s led campaigns on a variety of issues such as living wage, vacant properties, education reform, immigrant rights, and health equity. He’s the grandson of a New Castle steelworker and a Westinghouse Factory union steward and was born and raised in Ohio and now lives in the city of Kent, OH with his wife Rosi and two boys Roberto and Emiliano.
Nov 11, 2011
Paolo Cravero Paolo Cravero
Paolo M.C. Cravero is a Nation intern and a freelance journalist who holds a Master's in International Affairs from The Graduate Institute, Geneva. His Twitter handle is @PaoloCravero.
Nov 11, 2011
Norm Stamper Norm Stamper
Norm Stamper was chief of the Seattle Police Department during the WTO protests in 1999. He is the author of Breaking Rank: A Top Cop’s Exposé of the Dark Side of American Policing (Nation Books).
Nov 9, 2011
Rodney Koeneke Rodney Koeneke
Nov 9, 2011
Megan Reback Megan Reback
Megan Reback, an undergraduate at Connecticut College, is a columnist for the college's student-run College Voice.
Nov 3, 2011
Erika Eichelberger Erika Eichelberger
Erika Eichelberger is a reporter in the Nation's DC bureau. She is a former senior editorial fellow at Mother Jones.
Nov 3, 2011
Reuters Reuters
Nov 3, 2011
Evie Shockley Evie Shockley
Evie Shockley is the author of two books of poetry—the new black (Wesleyan) and a half-red sea (Carolina Wren Press)—and a book of criticism, Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry (Iowa). She teaches African American literature and creative writing at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
Nov 1, 2011
Jeremy Bass Jeremy Bass
Jeremy Bass (www.jeremybass.net) is a musician and poet based in New York City. His poems and reviews have appeared in New England Review, Pleiades and elsewhere.
Nov 1, 2011
Ross Posnock Ross Posnock
Ross Posnock teaches literature at Columbia. A contributing editor of Raritan, he is the author, most recently, of Philip Roth’s Rude Truth.
Nov 1, 2011