Brian Awehali is the founder and editor of LiP. A former editor at the managerially-doomed Britannica.com, his work has appeared in (or on) Z Magazine, ColorsNW, Alternet, The El Dorado Sun, The Santa Fe New Mexican, and High Times. In addition to his editing and writing, he has worked as a landscaper, graveyard shift grocery stocker, dock worker, forklift operator, dedicated plasma donor, hilariously miscast management consultant, door-to-door canvasser, graphic designer, web designer, and telephone salesperson for Fred Astaire dance studios. He is a tribal member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.

Race and ethnicity editor Tim Wise is among the most prominent antiracist writers and activists in the US, and has been called the “foremost white antiracist intellectual in the nation.” A collection of Wise’s essays, Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections from an Angry White Male, is due out in 2004, and he has two other books scheduled for release in early 2005: White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son (Soft Skull Press) and Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White (Routledge).

Contributing illustrator Tim Kreider is the creator of the pleasantly perverse cartoon, The Pain—When Will It End?, published weekly online at www.thepaincomics.com and in print in the Baltimore City Paper and the Jackson Planet Weekly. His articles have appeared in Film Quarterly, the Comics Journal and right here in LiP. A collection of his cartoons was published by Fantagraphics Books in May 2004.

Contributing illustrator Shannon Wheeler is a contributing illustrator to LiP. He is the creator of Too Much Coffee Man, a nervous, paranoid, jittery satire of modern life and popular culture—especially superheroes. Shannon is also the publisher and editor of the Portland-based magazine of the same name.

Chief copy editor A.E. Berkowitz has written for Bitch and Bust, and contributed to the anthology Young Wives’ Tales. She is currently at work on a mystery novel.

Editor at large Lisa Jervis, who has been described in print as “delightfully cranky,” is the cofounder and publisher of Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture. Her work has also appeared in Ms., the San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, Salon, Punk Planet, the Women’s Review of Books and Spreadsheet Slut. She lives in Oakland, California, where she enjoys her two cats, not bicycling, and refusing to relocate to her hometown of New York City.

Contributing editor Jeff Conant is a writer and activist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has documented social justice struggles in the US, Mexico, Honduras, South Africa, and Ecuador. Currently, he is developing popular education materials on environmental health for the Hesperian Foundation, doing occasional reporting for the National Radio Project, and tending his garden.

Contributing illustrator Eric Drooker’s paintings are seen on the covers of the New Yorker, the Progressive, the Village Voice and numerous other magazines, as well as books and albums. He is the author of Flood! A Novel in Pictures, Illuminated Poems (with Allen Ginsberg), Street Posters & Ballads and Blood Song: A Silent Ballad. He gives slide lectures at schools and cultural centers worldwide. He is a third-generation New Yorker, born and raised on Manhattan Island.

Editorial advisor Guillermo Gómez-Peña was born and raised in Mexico City. He came to the United States in 1978. In his work, which includes performance art, video, audio, installations, poetry, journalism, critical writings and cultural theory, he explores cross-cultural issues and North/South relations. He is the recipient of an American Book Award for New World Border, and has also received the Prix de la Parole, New York’s Bessie Award and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

Managing editor Erin Wiegand has quite a lot of responsibility. To make up for it, she pursues dangerous and uninhibited activities such as baking, napping and plotting the destruction of western civilization.

Designer and production manager Colin Sagan is a freelance graphic designer who also works on Kitchen Sink Magazine. In order to finance working on so many magazines for free, he is currently harvesting the energy generated by the meowing of feral kittens that live in his back yard.

Kari Lydersen is a contributing editor to LiP. She is also an apparently indefatigable journalist just trying to earn enough loot for a one-way ticket to Hawaii's North Shore so she can grow mangos and surf all day for the rest of her life. She currently writes for a dizzying array of publications, including Alternet, Chicago Ink, the Chicago Reader, the Washington Post, Punk Planet, Clamor, In These Times, The Heartland Journal, Swimming World, and American Forests.

Editorial advisor to LiP Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, recently retired after 30 years as a professor of Ethnic Studies at California State University Hayward. With a doctorate in history from UCLA, she initiated the Department of Ethnic Studies, specializing in Native American Studies, a field in which she has published eight books and numerous articles. She has been active since 1977 in the field of international human rights, lobbying at the United Nations for initiatives for the self-determination of Indigenous Peoples. A longtime activist, Ortiz was one of the founders of the women's liberation movement in the 1960s, about which she wrote in a memoir, Outlaw Woman: Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975. An earlier historical memoir, Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie, recounts her roots as a child of rural poverty, but also heir to her grandfather's rural radicalism as an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma. She has completed another memoir of Reagan's contra war against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, to be published by South End Books in 2005. Check out her website at www.reddirtsite.com

Winona LaDuke resides on the White Earth reservation in Minnesota with her two children. She founded the Indigenous Womens' Network, led the successful opposition to the James Bay hydroelectric project, and was a vice-presidential candidate on the Green Party ticket in 2000.

Robin D. G. Kelley teaches history at New York University and is the author of Yo Mama's Dysfunktional! and Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working class.

Martín Espada is the author and editor of numerous collections of poetry, including his own City of Coughing and Dead Radiators (1993) and Imagine the Angels of Bread (1996), which won the American Book Award. He teaches English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He's also been a bar bouncer, a monkey caretaker in a primate lab, a latrine digger in Sandanista Nicaragua, and a tenants rights lawyer.

Cynthia Peters is a freelance editor and writer, and an activist with the Jamaica Plain Action Network (JPAN), a new community-based group organizing in response to the current crisis.

Mark Crispin Miller is a media critic and activist for democratic media reform, professor of media ecology at New York University, and author of Boxed In: The Culture of TV, Seeing Through Movies, and The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder.

Michael Eric Dyson is an author and Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include, among others I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr., Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line, and Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X.

Matt Kelley is the founder of The MAVIN Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to redefining diversity by celebrating mixed-race young people. In 1998, he founded MAVIN magazine, the only magazine about multiracial Americans. He lives in Seattle.

Carrie McLaren, who works at the Berkeley Carroll School in Brooklyn, publishes and edits Stay Free!, a print magazine focused on issues surrounding commercialism and American culture.

When not writing cranky letters to the Philadelphia-Inquirer, yelling at the television and doing other predictable things, Arthur Stamoulis spends his fun time working for a Philadelphia community group called Media Tank. A former editor for Common Courage Press, he is always on the lookout for interesting projects. Feel free to let him know.

Jordan Elgrably is the former editor of CriminalDefense Weekly, published by CriminalDefense.com. He has been an international journalist published in four languages, and is the founder of three nonprofit organizations promoting improved community relations and cross-cultural education, among them Levantine Cultural Center.

Matthew Klam, an O. Henry Award winner, was named one of the twenty best young fiction writers in America by The New Yorker in 1999. (Now, LiP reader, try and recall just one of the other nineteen writers named by The New Yorker.)

Welcomed into the Surrealist Movement in Paris by André Breton in 1966, poet Franklin Rosemont co-founded the Chicago Surrealist Group later that year. His books include What is Surrealism? Selected Writings of André Breton (Pathfinder Press) and The Forecast is Hot! Tracts and Other Collective Declarations of the Surrealist Movement in the United States (Black Swan Press).

Justin Podur writes for ZNet and has prepared ZNet's Institutional Racism Instructional. He lives in Toronto.

Lisette Garcia is a former journalist whose work has appeared in The Miami Herald, The Kansas City Star and, most recently, The Associated Press. These days she is proudest reporting that her 7-year-old son, Justice, and her 7-month-old rooster, Precious, are equally fond of corn.

When not writing or riding one of his five bikes, Ryan Singel teaches ESL, tends his garden, studies Spanish, and pays too much in student loans. Once upon a time, he was an Information Retrieval Engineer for a company whose management had never seen the movie Brazil. He would never refer to decaffeinated coffee as unleaded, nor would he drink it.

Ché Green is not an Argentine revolutionary fighting in Cuba, as was his namesake. A former investment banker and corporate wage-slave, Ché is now the founder and director of The ARMEDIA Institute, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization focusing on farm animal issues in the United States.

Dan Curry has written for The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Wall Street Journal. Currently unemployed, Dan has to resort to using the public library's computer, where a random stranger recently assailed him for being responsible for the programmatic torture and imprisonment of Jesse Jackson.

Jillian Sandell is an assistant professor of women’s studies at San Francisco State University. Her work has appeared in Bad Subjects, Film Quarterly and Socialist Review, among other places.

Steven Wishnia is a former senior editor at High Times and author of Exit 25 Utopia (The Imaginary Press)

Jessica Clark is a former LiP Co-Editor and recovering cultural critic. She writes about media issues, gender politics, and the pitfalls of representation, and is presently the Managing Editor of In These Times.

D.M. Yankowski is a freelance writer and editor living in Washington, D.C. He is a frequent contributor to Clamor and Friction magazine.

Among Michael Parenti's recent books are History as Mystery, To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia, and the 7th edition of Democracy for the Few.

Eqbal Ahmad was Professor Emeritus of International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. For many years he was managing editor of the quarterly Race and Class. His articles and essays appeared in The Nation and other journals throughout the world. He wrote a weekly column for Dawn, Pakistan's oldest English newspaper. Confronting Empire, the book of Eqbal Ahmad interviews by David Barsamian, is published by South End Press.

Wendy-O Matik is a Bay Area-based freelance writer, published poet and radical performance artist.

As assistant professor of Advertising and Sociology at the University of Illinois, Champaign, Dan Cook challenges students to unlearn the lessons they are taught daily by media and advertising.

Rachel Rinaldo is a freelance writer and graduate student in sociology. She is also a program coordinator for Indymedia Newsreal a monthly, half-hour compilation of 5-minute news segments contributed by independent producers around North America. It airs on Free Speech TV starting in August in select cities.

Larry Shaw is the writer and performer of "Sold Down the River," the anti-WTO protest song played from the Steelworkers' billboard truck during the protests in Seattle.

Katje Richstatter’s work has appeared in Punk Planet and the San Francisco Bay Guardian, among other places.

Joel Schalit is the author of Jerusalem Calling and editor of The Anti-Capitalism Reader: Imagining a Geography of Resistance, both of which are published by Brooklyn’s Akashic Books. Schalit’s work has appeared in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Sound Collector and Tikkun.

Mona West is the pseudonym for a well-known and award-winning writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. E-mail her at ms_monawest@hotmail.com.

While he believes in place-based politics, Benjamin Ortiz lives permanently in exile from himself. His writing has appeared in the Chicago Reader, New City, San Antonio Current, The Neighborhood Works, Border Beat, and Compost: An International Journal of Literature & Ideas.

Jack Peasley is a poet, performance artist, wit raconteur, sexual mystic, deceitful motivational corporate speaker, and entirely unknown author who usually lives in Chicago.

Office assistant Albert Awehali enjoys long walks, wet food and a good bone.

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