Jordan Flaherty is an award-winning journalist, producer, and author. He has appeared as a guest on a wide range of television and radio shows, including CNN Morning, Anderson Cooper 360, CNN Headline News, RT America, the Alan Colmes Show on Fox, and News and Notes on NPR. He is the author of the books No More Heroes: Grassroots Responses to the Savior Mentality and Floodlines: Community and Resistance From Katrina to the Jena Six and has produced television documentaries and news reports for Democracy Now, teleSUR, The Laura Flanders Show, and Al Jazeera, including as a producer on the Emmy, Peabody, and duPont-award-winning program Fault Lines on Al Jazeera.

Jordan’s print journalism has been featured in dozens of publications, from the New York Times and Washington Post to ColorLines and the Village Voice. His articles have been translated into German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic, and published in major publications around the world, including Die Zeit in Germany, Clarin in Argentina, Juventude Rebelde in Cuba, Red Pepper in England, and many more from Lebanon to Paris to New Zealand to South Africa. He has also reported as a correspondent for Agence France Presse, and written for dozens of news websites including Huffington Post, CommonDreams, AlterNet, Counterpunch, and ZNet. As a white southerner who speaks honestly about race, Jordan Flaherty has been regularly published in Black progressive forums such as Black Commentator and Black Agenda Report, and is a regular guest on Black radio stations and programs such as Keep Hope Alive With Reverend Jesse Jackson.

Jordan has produced award-winning fiction films, documentaries, music videos, and news reports, and his reporting and analysis has been published in several anthologies, including the South End Press books Live From Palestine and What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race and the State of the Nation; the University of Georgia Press book What is a City; the AK Press book Red State Rebels; and Bury The Dead from Cascade Books. He has appeared as an actor in HBO’s television series Treme, playing himself. He produced the fiction film Chocolate Babies, which was recently added to The Criterion Collection.

Jordan was the first journalist to bring the case of the Jena Six to a national audience, and he has so far been the only journalist identified as a subject of the New York City Police Department’s spying programs. His journalism awards include awards from New America Media for Best Post-Katrina Reporting in the Ethnic Press, and from the National Headliner Awards for Best Broadcast Environmental Reporting.

Jordan has lectured at dozens of colleges, universities and conferences including Columbia University, Stanford Law School, Yale, University of California at Santa Cruz, University of California at Los Angeles, SUNY Stonybrook, American University in Washington DC, Loyola University Chicago, University of Florida, University of Chicago, University of Texas at Austin, Loyola Law School, Tulane University, University of New Orleans, Xavier University, and many others. He was an editor of The Abolitionist, a bilingual newspaper distributed mostly in prisons in North and South America, and from 2004-2011 he was a part of the editorial collective that published Left Turn Magazine, a publication that reported from progressive and revolutionary movements around the world.

You can see more of Jordan's work at jordanflaherty.org.

Dean Kuipers’ new memoir, The Deer Camp, recounts how a wildlife habitat project saved his relationship to his father by getting their hands in the dirt. He is an award-winning journalist and writes on nature, environmental politics, and the arts. He is the author of several non-fiction books, including Burning Rainbow Farm, which was a 2007 Library of Michigan Foundation Notable Book; Operation Bite Back, about eco-activist Rod Coronado; and I Am A Bullet, a study of cultural acceleration with fine artist Doug Aitken. Kuipers and his wife, Lauri Kranz, co-authored A Garden Can Be Anywhere, a personal and stylish new how-to book on organic gardening. He has edited two books about the much-beloved rock and roll magazine, Ray Gun, including the new Ray Gun: The Bible of Music and Style.

He has contributed to several anthologies, including The Contenders, about the 2008 election, and Red State Rebels. He was an editor at the Los Angeles Times, Spin, Ray Gun, and Los Angeles CityBeat, and his work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, Orion, The Atlantic, Wired, Playboy, Men’s Journal, Outside, Interview, Travel & Leisure, Capital & Main, The Nation, Pacific Standard, LA Weekly and other publications. He lives in Los Angeles.

Joshua Frank is an environmental journalist and managing editor of CounterPunch. His most recent book is Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America (Haymarket Books, 2022).

Jeffrey St. Clair (born 1959 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an investigative journalist, writer and editor. He is the co-editor, with Joshua Frank, of the political magazine and website CounterPunch, and a contributing editor to the monthly magazine In These Times. He has also written for The Washington Post, San Francisco Examiner, The Nation, The New Statesman and The Progressive.

St. Clair attended the American University in Washington, D.C., majoring in English and history. In 1990, he moved to Oregon to edit the influential environmental magazine Forest Watch, later renamed Wild Forest Review. In 1994, he joined journalists Alexander Cockburn and Ken Silverstein on CounterPunch. He now co-edits the newsletter and the popular website.

In 1998, he published his first book, with Cockburn, Whiteout: the CIA, Drugs and the Press, a history of the CIA's ties to drug gangs from World War II to the Mujahideen and Nicaraguan Contras. This was followed by A Field Guide to Environmental Bad Guys (with James Ridgeway), Five Days that Shook the World: Seattle and Beyond, Al Gore: a User's Manual, The Politics of Antisemitism, Been Brown So Long It Looked Like Green to Me: the Politics of Nature, Imperial Crusades, Grand Theft Pentagon, A Dime’s Worth of Difference, End Times: the Death of the Fourth Estate, Red State Rebels, Born Under a Bad Sky, Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion, Killing Trayvons: an Anthology of American Violence, Bernie and the Sandernistas, The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink, and An Orgy of Thieves: Neoliberalism and Its Discontents.

He was the recepient of the Anti-Censorship prize at the 2022 American Book Awards.

Jeffrey St. Clair lives in Oregon City with his wife Kimberly Willson, a librarian.