Contributors
The following is a list of organizations contributors to Niger Delta Rising. Interested in becoming a contributor? Contact us!
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Name: Daphne Wysham |
| Organization: Institute for Policy Studies | |
| Job Title: Fellow | |
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Biography: Daphne Wysham is a Fellow and board member of the Institute for Policy Studies, founder and co-director of the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network, a project of IPS, and founder and co-host of Earthbeat Radio. Wysham is a former Fellow of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam; former editor-in-chief of Greenpeace Magazine; and associate of the Center for Investigative Reporting. She is a board advisor to the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, and a member of the Durban Group for Climate Justice. Ms. Wysham's analysis and critiques have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Grist, The Guardian, The Financial Times, and on BBC, NPR, and Marketplace, among others. | |
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Name: Sabella Abidde |
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Name: Daniel Volman |
| Organization: African Security Research Project | |
| Job Title: Director | |
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Biography: Daniel Volman is the Director of the African Security Research Project, in Washington, DC, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars. He is a specialist on U.S. security policy toward Africa and U.S. military activities on the continent. He also does research and writing on the growing military involvement of China, India, and Russia in Africa and on issues related to the extraction of oil, natural gas, uranium, and other mineral resources from Africa. He can be reached at the following email address: dvolman@igc.org | |
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Name: Brian Cruikshank |
| Organization: Institute for Policy Studies | |
| Job Title: Tech/Web Production Intern | |
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Biography: Brian Cruikshank is an activist on many issues of social justice including trade and globalization. He has traveled to dozens of countries around the world and studied abroad in Caracas, Venezuela. He graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 2008 with a B.S. in Information & Computer Science and a B.A. in Sociology. He is now an aspiring website producer for social justice organizations with many sites he has created or managed including NoMoreBrokenHearts.net, EarthbeatRadio.org, BillionairesForWealthcare.com, and this one. | |
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Name: Michael J. Watts |
| Organization: University of California, Berkeley | |
| Job Title: Director of Development Studies | |
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Biography: Michael J. Watts is Class of ‘63 Professor of Geography, and Director of Development Studies at the University of California, Berkeley where he has taught for thirty years He served as the Director of the Institute of International Studies at Berkeley from 1994-2004. His research has addressed a number of development issues especially food security, resource development and land reform in Africa, South Asia and Vietnam. Over the last twenty years he has written extensively on the oil industry, especially in Nigeria, and the Gulf of Guinea; his most recent book is “The Curse of the Black Gold: Fifty Years of Oil in the Niger Delta” with photographer Ed Kashi. Watts was a Guggenheim fellow in 2003 and was awarded the Victoria Medal by the Royal Geographical Society in 2004. He has consulted for a number of development agencies including the United Nations, and other development organizations and has provided expert testimony for governmental and other agencies. He was educated at University College London and the University of Michigan and has held visiting appointments at the Smithsonian Institution, and the Universities of Bergen, Bologna, and London. He serves on the Board of Advisors of a number of non-profits including Food First and the Pacific Institute, and is Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Social Science Research Council. | |
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Name: Ike Okonta |
| Organization: University of Oxford | |
| Job Title: Research Fellow at Department of Politics and International Relations | |
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Biography: Ike Okonta studied sociology and journalism at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and took a doctorate in Politics at Oxford University. He has held research fellowships at Oxford and University of California, Berkeley. Okonta is co-author of Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights and Oil and writes regularly for newspapers all over the world. | |
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Name: Asume Osuoka |
| Organization: Social Action | |
| Job Title: Director | |
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