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This database features alternative experts who are available to the press. Their authority derives from either lived experience or professional expertise or both. The current categories are Care, Disability, Drugs, Economics, Labor and Military, with more to come. For additional information please visit the About page.

From Army veterans to conflict resolution specialists

Sofya Aptekar

Associate Professor, Urban Studies, City University of New York (CUNY) School of Labor and Urban Studies

Aptekar is a sociologist who studies the U.S. military as well as immigration, gentrification and institutional debt. Her books include Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat.

FOCUS: Military
LANGUAGE: English
ORGANIZATION: CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies

Gretchen Baldwin

Researcher, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Baldwin has a wide range of experience in peace and conflict settings, primarily in a policy-oriented research capacity. Her work in SIPRI’s Peace Operations and Conflict Management Program focuses on gender and peace operations. Baldwin has also worked at the International Peace Institute in New York City and in Cameroon, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

FOCUS: Military
LANGUAGE: English
ORGANIZATION: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Elizabeth Beavers

Peace and Security Advocacy Strategist

As a consultant, Beavers has strengthened national advocacy organizations in their work to lobby lawmakers, organize and train grassroots activists and change the public narrative on matters of peace and security. She focuses on counter-terrorism law, demilitarization of U.S. foreign policy, Pentagon spending and Guantánamo. Beavers is also an adjunct national security law professor at the University of New Hampshire’s Franklin Pierce School of Law and has worked at organizations including the Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers), the U.S. section of Amnesty International and Indivisible.

FOCUS: Military
LANGUAGE: English
ORGANIZATION: Self

Pam Campos-Palma

Political strategist and Military Veteran

Campos-Palma is a post-9/11 military veteran of the global war on terror. A former U.S. military intelligence and anti-terrorism analyst, she focuses on democratizing national security and building inclusive, equitable multi-racial democracies to end supremacist violence and war profiteering at home and abroad. Over the last decade, Campos-Palma has dedicated herself to creating new models of empowerment and organizing for war-impacted communities such as refugees, military members, veterans and national security practitioners.

FOCUS: Military
LANGUAGE: English, Spanish
ORGANIZATION: Self

Lindsay Koshgarian

Program Director, National Priorities Project

Koshgarian’s work at the National Priorities Project, which fights for a U.S. federal budget that prioritizes peace, economic security and shared prosperity, includes analysis of the budget process and politics, military spending and how federal budget choices for spending priorities and taxation interact. A particular area of interest is how a decades-long policy of outsized military budgets has eroded political will to invest in opportunity and human potential through greater federal support of education, health care, infrastructure and more.

FOCUS: Military
LANGUAGE: English
ORGANIZATION: National Priorities Project