Joan Garry
Joan M. Garry, former Executive Director of GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), is recognized as one of the most vocal, passionate and effective civil rights leaders in America....
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Tom Philpott writes the “Food for Thought” blog at Mother Jones and is a former columnist and editor at Grist.org, where he wrote the “Victual Reality” column, the only regular food-politics column in...
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Author of the memoir Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army, Kayla Williams is a former sergeant and Arabic linguist in a military intelligence unit of the U.S Army’s 101st...
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Michael A. Cohen is a Fellow at the Century Foundation and author of Live From the Campaign Trail: The Greatest Presidential Campaign Speeches of the 20th Century and How They Shaped Modern America....
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A staff cartoonist for The New Yorker and author of When Do They Serve the Wine? The Folly, Fun and Flexibility of Being a Woman (Chronicle), Liza Donnelly was one of only three female cartoonists at...
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Founder of the Hip-Hop Chess Federation, Adisa Banjoko speaks about how the fusion of Hip Hop, Chess and martial arts can teach unity, strategy and non-violence. Banjoko broke ground on many of the...
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Brandon Friedman, author of The War I Always Wanted: The Illusion of Glory and the Reality of War, is the Vice Chairman of VoteVets.org – a 100,000-member organization dedicated to getting veterans...
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Human rights activist and real-life inspiration for the novel Nine Days, Ti-Anna Wang has spent years fighting for the release of her father, who was imprisoned for life in China for speaking out in...
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Brandon Friedman, author of The War I Always Wanted: The Illusion of Glory and the Reality of War, is the former Director of New Media at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Previously, he was the...
View ArticleGustavo Arellano
Gustavo Arellano, author of the nationally syndicated column and bestselling book, ¡Ask a Mexican!, is a child of Mexican immigrants (one illegal), who managed to become as American as John Wayne in a...
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