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Editorial Team
Acting Executive Director: Dina Rasor
Executive Director, on Book Leave: Maya Schenwar
Managing Editor: Victoria Harper
Managing Editor, BuzzFlash: Mark Karlin
Content Relations Editor: Leslie Thatcher
Senior Editor and Lead Columnist: William Rivers Pitt
Assistant Editors: Ariel Lawrence, Britney Schultz, Candice Bernd
Copy Editors: Patty Fitzgerald, George Tanner
Reporters: Mike Ludwig, Candice Bernd
Content Review Fellow: Martha Sorren
Content Review Intern: Amanda Brand
Production and Tech Team
Digital Liaison/Designer/Photo Editor: Jared Rodriguez
Videographer/Designer/Photo Editor: Lance Page
Community Liaison: Joseph Peterson
Joomla! Site Development and Maintenance: CNP Integrations
Development Team
Director of Donor Development and Outreach: Joe Macaré
Director of Foundation Development: Lucy Dorick
Administrative Manager: Annie Stoddard
Financial Administrator: Kendel Gordon
Development Fellow: Zia Swim
Contributing Writers
Dirk Adriaensens, Rose Aguilar, Max Ajl, H.P Albarelli, Randall Amster, Angola 3 News, Ted Asregadoo, William Astore, David Bacon, Eleanor Bader, Dean Baker, Beverly Bell, Kyle Bella, Adam Bessie, Shahid Buttar, Cynthia Boaz, Marion Brady, Jeremy Brecher, Ellen Brown, Susie Cagle, Ira Chernus, Noam Chomsky, Jeff Cohen, Marjorie Cohn, Shamus Cooke, Michael Corcoran, Benjamin Dangl, Lawrence Davidson, Betsy de la Vega, Anthony DiMaggio, Peter Dreier, Barry Eisler, Max Eternity, Sam Ferguson, William Fisher, Harriet Fraad, Henry A. Giroux, Arun Gupta, Matt Harwood, Ryan Harvey, Tom H. Hastings, Patricia Hynes, David Johnson, Jeffrey Kaye, Kathy Kelly, Allison Kilkenny, Sam Knight, James L. Knoll IV, David Krieger, George Lakoff, Victoria Law, Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III, Gregg Levine, Dick Meister, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Nick Mottern, Bill Moyers, Michael Nagler, Robert Naiman, Eric Newhouse, Greg Palast, Michael Parenti, John Pilger, Gareth Porter,Mark Provost, Bill Quigley, Jack Rasmus, Robert Reich, Richard Sale, Christine Shearer, Richard Silverstein, Mary Sojourner, Evaggelos Vallianatos, Danny Weil, Mark Weisbrot, Robert Wilbur, Kelpie Wilson, Lawrence S. Wittner, Michael Winship, Richard Wolff, Andy Worthington, Stephen Zunes and more.
Board of Directors
President: Robert Naiman
Members: Henry A. Giroux, Lewis Gordon, Victoria Harper, Maya Schenwar
Board of Advisers
Valerie Anderson, Dean Baker, Beverly Bell, Scott Blau, Cynthia Boaz, Alan Breslauer, Rinaldo Brutoco, Maxon Buscher, Marjorie Cohn, Henry Crapo, Jodie Evans, Jaclyn Friedman, George Lakoff, Bryan Lockwood, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Richard Power, Robert Reich, Roberto Rodriguez, Mark Ruffalo, Graham and Mariesa Ryan, T.M. Scruggs, Mikey Weinstein and Richard D. Wolff.
