Nahida Halaby Gordon

Nahida Halaby Gordon, PhD, is a Pprofessor emerita in probability and statistics at Case Western Reserve University. She has a deep interest in Palestine, which motivated her to serve as a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Birzeit University, Palestine. In addition, she was granted a Fulbright-Hayes Senior Scholar Program to engage in an exchange program with […]
Natasha Taghavi

Natasha Taghavi is a writer, editor and content strategist with over ten years of experience in her field. Currently digital content editor for an online platform, she manages and edits a team of writers while working across various strategic projects for both creative and commercial content. Natasha’s interest and knowledge of Middle Eastern affairs stem […]
Sonya E Meyerson-Knox

Sonya E Meyerson-Knox is communications manager at Jewish Voice for Peace. Previously, she worked at the United Nations and with grassroots organizations in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, where she lived for 16 years. She is also a founding editor at Sawt al Niswa, a feminist webspace for women in the Arab region, and […]
David Spero

I am an author, blogger, nurse, journalist, grandfather and activist for peace, Earth and Palestinian rights with Jewish Voice for Peace in the SF Bay Area. I know how to listen and what questions to ask to create compelling stories. I have written two published books on health, contributed to three others, and have done dozens of […]
Catherine Cassara

My journalism career started when I graduated from college. I worked for newspapers in Virginia, Connecticut and Maine, starting at small weekly papers and working my way to dailies. After nine years in newspapers, I went to graduate school with the idea to become a foreign correspondent, but teaching to pay my way through graduate […]
Steve Brown

Steve Brown began writing opinion pieces on SourceWatch, including Iraq the road to war – SourceWatch (2004) Bush Administration War Crimes in Iraq – SourceWatch (editor, 2008) and Inside Zion Oil – SourceWatch (2009). Steve edited video for the Real News Network channel (2005) and Access Television (2006), then moved on to writing articles published […]
Deena Damen

Deena Damen is a future law student from Stockton, California. She volunteered as a dispute resolutions mediator for San Joaquin County in 2019 and volunteered for the SJC public defenders office in 2020. She is a passionate human rights advocate and staunch social justice ally to underserved communities. She currently works as an elementary school […]
Farrell Brody

Farrell Brody has lived and taught English and Spanish in Israel, Mexico and the United States for more that 50 years. He has a Bachelor’s degree in English from Franklin & Marshall College, and three Master’s, including one from the Instituto de Filología Hispánica (Mexico), and another from the University of New Mexico. He also […]
Jodie Jones

In February 2019, Jodie Jones spontaneously quit her career in fashion journalism to travel, soul search and refocus. Almost two years—and a tour of Europe—later, that experience continues to inform the critical eye she casts across the world and back in time through history. Jodie studies the rotten root and thriving legacy of colonization, seeking […]
Melissa Robinson

A long-time journalist, Melissa Robinson lives with her family in the Washington suburb of Silver Spring, Maryland, where she also works as an actor and director. Over a long career, Melissa has written for newspapers, magazines, wire services and the web and worked in radio as a reporter, anchor and call-in talk show host. She’s […]
Mariam Barghouti

A resident of Ramallah, Mariam Barghouti has worked extensively in the region in the spheres of journalism, research, sociopolitical analysis and advocacy, She focuses on identity politics, policy-making and power relations, with an emphasis on intra-Palestinian and intra-Israeli relations, inter-Palestinian and inter-Israeli dynamics, human rights, and shifting sociopolitical and economic realities. Read more on her blog.
Jaylyn Olivo

Jaylyn Olivo is a retired medical editor who founded an editorial service at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston to assist hospital staff in writing articles for publication and grant proposals. In addition, Jaylyn is a soprano who has sung with many musical groups, most recently the Tanglewood Festival Chorus (official chorus of the Boston […]