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Dan Berger is a 23-year-old writer, activist, and graduate student living in Philadelphia. He was a co-founder and served as editor for two-and-a-half years of ONWARD, an internationally distributed quarterly anarchist newspaper that emerged out of the global justice movement. The grandson of Holocaust survivors, Berger has been involved with an array of anti-racist organizing projects. He was a founding member of the Colors of Resistance collective, an anti-racist group at the University of  Florida and part of the Colours of Resistance network. He has also worked with Critical Resistance, the national prison abolition organization, and done support work for U.S. political prisoners.

Chesa Boudin is a 25-year-old itinerant activist, writer and student. He recently began his second Masters degree in public policy in Latin America at Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship. In 2003 he graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with honors in the history department.

An anti-imperialist peace activist and a criminal justice activist, Chesa has used writing, campus and community organizing, and public speaking to advocate for changes in social and foreign policy. As a founding member of the Student Legal Action Movement at Yale, he campaigned for protection of prisoners' rights in Connecticut State prisons, and around the country. He was a leading member of the Yale Coalition for Peace, organizing against the war in Iraq.

Chesa has used his time abroad to learn fluent Spanish and Portuguese. This is his first book. He also recently finished translating Understanding the Bolivarian Revolution: Hugo Chavez Speaks with Marta Harnecker into English (Monthly Review Press, 2005), and is a co-author of The Venezuelan Revolution: 100 Questions – 100 Answers (Thunder's Mouth Press 2006).

Kenyon Farrow is a 31-year-old writer and activist living in Brooklyn, NY. He is the culture editor for Clamor Magazine, and his essays have appeared in Utne Reader, Black Commentator, Left Turn, BlackAIDS.org, Pop and politics.com, Bay Windows, City Limits, The Objector Between the Lines, and in the anthology, Spirited (Red Bone Press 2006). Much of Kenyon’s writing can be found on blogs all over the net, including “Is Gay Marriage Anti-Black?,” “Connecting the Dots: Michael Moore, White Nationalism and the Multi-racial Left” with writer Kil Ja Kim, “We Real Cool?: On Hip-Hop, Asian-Americans, Black Folks, and Appropriation."

As an activist, Kenyon served as the Southern Regional Coordinator for Critical Resistance, a prison abolition organization, and continues to work on the national organizing body. He has also served as an adult ally for FIERCE!, a queer youth of color community organizing project in New York City, and with the New York State Black Gay Network. Kenyon continues to write, lecture, and organize, and is currently working on his first solo book project. He is working on a Master's in Journalism with the City University of New York.

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Letters From Young Activists:
Today's Rebels Speak Out
Edited by: Dan Berger, Chesa Boudin, and Kenyon Farrow