The Editors

Christopher Malone, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of American Politics at Pace University’s New York City Campus. Since 2011, he has also served as Policy Director for New York State Senator Gustavo Rivera. Malone’s academic research focuses primarily on race and American political development, democracy, and citizenship. He is the author of Between Freedom and Bondage: Race, Party, and Voting Rights in the Antebellum North (Routledge Press, 2008) and co-author and co-editor of Occupying Political Science: The Occupy Wall Street Movement from New York to the World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Malone also reviews books for the Law and Politics Book Review. Malone is a nationally recognized teacher of civic engagement and public values. During the 2000 presidential campaign, he helped produce and appeared in the PBS show for teens In the Mix, teaching young voters about analyzing campaign ads. In January 2004, he was identified by the Washington Post as one of the nation’s most innovative professors. From 2004 to 2010, Malone co-taught a course on American Politics and Public Policy with C-SPAN’s Executive Producer Steve Scully that aired every Friday afternoon on the C-SPAN networks.

George Martinez, Jr., also known as “George Rithm Martinez,” is an award winning artist, activist, and educator who blurs the lines between theory and practice through the combination of hip hop culture, grassroots organizing, and social entrepreneurship. George is an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Pace University, a celebrated U.S. hip hop ambassador, and a political visionary. Martinez is the founder and President of the Global Block Foundation and the host of the nationally broadcast radio show Critical Reboot. Martinez has guest lectured and performed at universities throughout the United States and around the world and has appeared in more than 200 news outlets including MSNBC, Huff Post Live, the New York Times, USA Today, CNN Español, and the New Yorker. In 2013, Martinez was named as one of New York’s 40 Under 40 Rising Latino Stars. 
He is the creator of the term and conceptual visionary behind The Organic Globalizer.