Eric Tipler
Alum 2008Eric Tipler has spent the last three years teaching high school, first in the suburbs and then in the inner-city of Washington, DC. At Mesa he will work on a memoir exploring how public schools perpetuate social inequality and how we can break that cycle.
Cora Stryker
Alum 2008I am a former tropical field biologist and was, for a time, the world's worst Zen monk.
Jeremy Adam Smith
Alum 2008Jeremy’s coverage of racial and economic segregation in San Francisco schools has won numerous honors.
Tram Nguyen
Alum 2008Tram Nguyen was formerly the Executive Editor of ColorLines magazine. She is the author of We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities After 9/11, and the forthcoming Language is a Place of Struggle: Great Quotes by Americans of Color.
Ruth Needleman
Alum 2008Ruth Needleman, Prof. Emerita, Indiana University, divides her time between local Gary struggles (local hiring, CBA, against GEO immigrant prison) and teaching & writing on global social movements. She is writing on Brazil, African-Descendants in Latin America and transformational pedagogy.
Wendy McLaughlin
Alum 2008Wendy McLaughlin is a radio producer and documentary filmmaker. At Mesa Refuge
she will be working on her a book about Warren Weber, a pioneer of the organic
farming movement in California.
Barry C. Lynn
Alum 2008Lynn’s writings on the political and economic effects of the extreme consolidation of power in the United States have influenced the thinking of policymakers and antitrust professionals on both sides of the Atlantic.
Jeff Lustig
Alum 2008He authored Corporate Liberalism: The Origins of Modern American Political Theory, 1890–1920, and wrote numerous articles on American and Californian politics and political theory, the corporatization of the modern university, and on immigration, race, and class.
Caspar Henderson
Alum 2008He is the author of The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, a bestiary for the 21st Century, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. He lives in Oxford, England.
Andrea Godshalk
Alum 2008Andrea works in the local food movement and with youth leadership development.
Her writing has been published in LOUDmouth, The Resister, The Bullhorn and The
Rocky Mountain Chronicle.
Bill Gallegos
Alum 2008Bill Gallegos is a long-time activist in the Chicano Liberation and environmental justice movements, having worked as a labor, community, and campus organizer. He is originally from Colorado and began his activism with the Crusade for Justice.
Linda Faillace
Alum 2008Linda Faillace is the author of Mad Sheep: The True Story behind the USDA’s War on a Family Farm. A champion of organic and sustainable farming, farmer’s rights, and strong local communities, Linda will work on her second book, The Right to Eat: The Next Civil Rights Movement.