Don Hazen is executive director of the Independent Media Institute and executive editor of AlterNet. The former publisher of Mother Jones magazine, he has edited several books, including, most recently,
Start Making Sense: Turning the Lessons of Election 2004 into Winning Progressive Politics. Don conceived of and organized the two Media & Democracy Congresses that took place in San Francisco and New York City in 1997 and 1998, and has managed political campaigns in New York City for Ruth Messinger and David Dinkins. He holds an MA in counseling from the University of Massachusetts and a BA in politics from Princeton University.
Jan Frel is a senior editor at AlterNet. He has worked previously for AlterNet as a staff writer and political editor. Before coming to AlterNet, Jan worked on Howard Dean’s presidential campaign in Vermont and at TomPaine.com in Washington, DC. He is a graduate of St. Andrews University in Scotland.
Tara Lohan is a senior editor at AlterNet and heads up the Environment, Food, and Water special coverage sections. She is the editor of
Water Consciousness: How We All Have to Change to Protect Our Most Critical Resource from AlterNet Books. She has worked as a writer, editor and organizer on environmental and social justice issues for ten years. She has a master’s in Literary Nonfiction from the University of Oregon and bachelor’s in English and Environmental Studies from Middlebury College.
Joshua Holland is AlterNet’s senior staff writer. Based in San Francisco, Holland also edits AlterNet’s Corporations and Work and Immigration special coverage. He was the recipient of a 2005 Schumann Foundation grant for independent journalism, and has won two Project Censored Awards for AlterNet, including PC’s #1 story for 2008. Holland graduated from the University of Southern California’s School of International Relations, with foci in security studies and international political economy.
Adele M. Stan is AlterNet’s Washington bureau chief. She began her media career at
Ms. magazine, where she served both on staff and as a contributing editor. Stan served as a columnist and blogger for The American Prospect Online and an essayist for The Guardian’s Comment Is Free site. Stan’s work has also appeared in
Mother Jones,
The New Republic, the
Village Voice,
The Nation,
The Advocate, Salon.com and the
Washington Blade, as well as on the op-ed pages of the
New York Times, the
Los Angeles Times, the
San Francisco Chronicle and the New York
Daily News. She also blogs at the Huffington Post.
Tana Ganeva is deputy managing editor and writes and blogs at AlterNet.org. She’s also in charge of AlterNet’s Reproductive Justice and Gender and Sex and Relationships special coverage areas. She has an MA in Media Arts from the University of Arizona and a BA in History from Reed College.
Julianne Escobedo Shepherd is an associate editor at AlterNet and a Brooklyn-based writer and editor. Formerly the executive editor of The FADER, her work has appeared in VIBE, SPIN, New York Times and various other magazines and websites.
Kristen Gwynne graduated from New York University with a degree in Journalism and Psychology. She covers Drugs at AlterNet, specializing in addiction and prescription pills. Gwynne grew up in the Philly area and is based in New York. She is the youngest AlterNet employee.
Lynn Parramore is a contributing editor at Alternet, co-founder of Recessionwire, and founding editor of New Deal 2.0. She is the author of Reading the Sphinx: Ancient Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture and has taught cultural theory at NYU.
Nick Turse is a journalist, historian, essayist, the associate editor of the Nation Institute’s Tomdispatch.com and a senior editor at AlterNet. He is the editor of The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan (Verso, 2010) and the author of The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives (Metropolitan Books, 2008). He has written for The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation, Adbusters, Mother Jones and The Village Voice, among other print and on-line publications. Turse was the recipient of a Ridenhour Prize for Investigative Reporting at the National Press Club in 2009, the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism that same year and was a finalist for the 2006 Tom Renner Award for Outstanding Crime Reporting from Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been a fellow-in-residence at Harvard University and New York University. Turse holds a Ph.D in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University and is an internationally-recognized authority on U.S. war crimes during the Vietnam War.
Roxanne Cooper is the associate publisher at AlterNet, where she oversees the organization’s business-side operations. She has 20+ years experience in media management, marketing and advertising sales and has held positions with the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, LA Weekly, San Francisco Bay Guardian and Stars and Stripes. You can follow her on Twitter
@AlterRox
Sian Taylor Gowan is AlterNet’s advertising director. Sian brings seven years of online advertising experience from SFGate.com and TMP Worldwide/Monster.com, as well as a Sales & Marketing management background in the entertainment photo industry. She is a native San Franciscan with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Broadcast Communication Arts from San Francisco State University.
Kristen Lee is AlterNet’s communications & development associate. She graduated from the University of North Carolina with a B.A. in International Studies prior to moving to San Francisco to work in green media.
Megan Driscoll is AlterNet’s editorial and communications assistant. She earned a B.A. in Philosophy, with an emphasis in political theory, at the University of San Francisco and previously worked at a non-profit focusing on peace efforts and conflict resolution in the Middle East.
Lauren Kelley is an associate editor at AlterNet and a freelance journalist based in New York City. She’s a frequent contributor to Change.org’s Poverty in America blog and has written for outlets including the
Washington Post’s Who Runs Gov project,
Time Out New York, TheLMagazine.com, and
Philanthropy News Digest.
Sarah Seltzer is an Associate Editor at AlterNet, a staff writer at
RH Reality Check and freelance writer based in New York City. Her work has been published in
The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, and the
LA Times and on the websites of
The Nation, The Christian Science Monitor, The Wall Street Journal and Jezebel. Read more of her writing at her
website.
Sarah Jaffe is an associate editor and writer at AlterNet, covering politics, labor, the economy, inequality, and pop culture. Her work has been published in The Nation, The American Prospect, Bitch magazine, Billboard, and many other publications. She has a master’s in journalism from Temple University and a BA from Loyola University New Orleans, and lives in Brooklyn with a spoiled dog. You can follow her on Twitter at @seasonothebitch.
Rania Khalek is a staff writer for AlterNet, based in Washington, DC, with a focus on militarization and corporatization of American culture. She also heads up AlterNet’s Investigations special coverage area. After graduating from George Mason University, she spent time as a progressive activist with various social justice movements. She is a proud vegan, atheist, feminist, and troublemaker and can be reached at rania@alternet.org.
Steven Rosenfeld is a senior fellow covering the corporate constitutional rights movement. He is a longtime print and broadcast journalist specializing in democracy issues. He has reported for National Public Radio, Monitor Radio, Marketplace, AlterNet, TomPaine.com and many newspapers. He was executive producer of The Laura Flanders Show on Air America Radio and RadioNation on public radio, and has written and co-authored three books on voting rights since 2004, including Count My Vote (AlterNet Books, 2008). He is a graduate of Middlebury College and lives in San Francisco.
Aliza Bartfield is the business and development associate at Alternet. She has worked in non-profit development, events and administration with a variety of organizations including Young People For, the organizing fellowship program at People For the American Way Foundation. She has a BA from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University.
