Karen Sternheimer
Lead Writer & Editor
Karen Sternheimer teaches in the sociology department at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses primarily on youth and popular culture and her commentary has been published in the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, and the San Jose Mercury News. She has appeared on CNN, The O’Reilly Factor, MSNBC, the Fox Morning News, The History Channel, and numerous radio programs. She is the author of Kids These Days: Facts and Fictions about Today’s Youth (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006) and It’s Not the Media: The Truth about Pop Culture’s Influence on Children (Westview, 2003). Among her hidden talents are coupon clipping and finding end-runs around LA area traffic.
C.N. Le
Writer
C.N. Le is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department and Director of the Asian & Asian American Studies Certificate Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine and his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University at Albany, SUNY. His research focuses generally on race/ethnicity and immigration and specifically on analyzing socioeconomic measures of assimilation among Asian Americans. Most of the time, he strives to find a sense of balance between competing forces —liberal vs. conservative, objective vs. subjective, etc. He also lives by the credo: "I don't know what the key to success is, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
Janis A. Prince Inniss
Writer
Janis A. Prince Inniss is on faculty at The Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute at the University of South Florida. She received a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Southern California, where she also earned a Master of Marital and Family Therapy and a M.A. in Sociology. Dr. Prince Inniss delights in working in a field that provides tools to address the questions she likes to ask and is tickled that she found a way to turn her childhood penchant for asking "why" into a legitimate means of employment. She is interested in the ways that people communicate, love in families, global ideas about race and ethnicity, and in seeing the underdog thrive.
Sally Raskoff
Writer
Sally Raskoff has been employed as a sociologist since the mid 1980’s and is currently the Chair of Sociology and Ethnic Studies at Los Angeles Valley College. She has always been a technology nerd, but she has taken up weaving to balance her experiences and truly understand what the Luddites were talking about. Her broad interests in sociology and in life include sex/gender, race/ethnicity, social class, statistics, theory, methods, consumerism, and civic engagement.
Bradley R.E. Wright
Writer
Bradley Wright is an associate professor at the University of Connecticut, where he teaches social psychology and religion. He is a Christian, a husband, and a father, and he adores goofing around. His hobbies include photography, hang gliding, landscaping, and eating ice cream (listed in roughly ascending order of competence).
